Ancient Formal Logic

Cover ......Page 1 Preface ......Page 3 List of Symbols ......Page 5 §1. Introduction......Page 6 §2. General Survey ......Page 14 §3. Formal Logic before Aristotle......Page 19 III. ARISTOTLE......Page 24 §4. Life, Work and Evolution ......Page 25 §5. The Notion of Logic; Semiotics ......Page 30 §7. Opposition. Principles of contradiction and of the excluded middle......Page 41 §8. Assertoric syllogistic. Description and methods......Page 47 §9. Formal laws of assertoric syllogistics......Page 54 §10. Modal Logic......Page 60 §11. Non-analytical laws and rules......Page 68 §12. Theophrastus and Eudemus......Page 78 §13. Historical Survey......Page 83 §14. Notion of Logic: Semiotics: Modalities: Categories......Page 89 §15. Propositional functors......Page 94 §16 Arguments and schemes of inference......Page 99 §17. Invalid arguments and paradoxes. The Liar......Page 106 §18. Greek Logic after Chrysippus. Boethius......Page 109 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 116 ADDITIONS......Page 123 INDEX OF GREEK TERMS......Page 124 INDEX OF NAMES......Page 127