On May 1, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> ....I'm just not interested in what Aquinas and Aristotle had to
> say. They weren't doing ontology engineering, they knew nothing
> whatever about 'ontology' in the sense used in this forum, and they
> knew nothing about modern logic. (01)
Well, Aristotle knew a lot about a pretty significant fragment of
it. :-) Here's a nice, somewhat popularized overview of how "modern"
his work in logic was: (02)
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Logi/LogiBoge.htm (03)
For a more scholarly treatment, see my colleague Robin Smith's entry
in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (04)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic (05)
> So their views are about as relevant to this discussion as those of
> Johan Sebastian Bach. And in any case, their ideas on just about
> anything that matters were (though of great historical importance)
> profoundly wrong. (06)
Not when it came to logic. (07)
-chris (08)
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