On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:13 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> ...
> As far as logic goes, please remember that Kant claimed that logic had
> not made any advance beyond Aristotle. But that is false, because
> it completely ignores the contributions by the Stoics and the medieval
> Scholastics. Peirce studied all those logics in great detail as
> well as the latest math & logic of his day. (01)
You surprisingly omitted the denouement, that Peirce (and, independently,
Frege) pretty much invented modern predicate logic, a logic massively more
powerful than anything Kant had ever dreamed of. (02)
-chris (03)
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