Single Idea 11060

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic]

Full Idea

Aristotle's logic is based on the triadic syllogism, the distinction between subject and one-place predicates, that universal claims have existential commitment, and bivalence, excluded middle and noncontradiction.

Gist of Idea

Aristotelian syllogisms are three-part, subject-predicate, existentially committed, with laws of thought

Source

report of Aristotle (Prior Analytics [c.328 BCE]) by Robert Hanna - Rationality and Logic 2.2

Book Reference

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.31