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Logic
The discipline that asks whether the argument holds before asking whether it is true.
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Ancient Logic
Converse with
Aristotle (Logic & Metaphysics) Simulacrum
Categories · Prior Analytics · Posterior Analytics · Syllogism · Being qua Being
4th century BC
Converse with
Aristotle (General) Simulacrum
Syllogistic Logic · Rhetoric · Metaphysics
4th century BC
Converse with
Chrysippus Simulacrum
Stoic Propositional Logic · Five Indemonstrables · Conditionals · Modality · Lekta
3rd century BC
Medieval Logic
Converse with
Peter Abelard Simulacrum
Dialectic · Sic et Non · Universals · Nominalism · Propositional Analysis
12th century
Converse with
William of Ockham Simulacrum
Nominalism · Ockham's Razor · Supposition Theory · Mental Language · Parsimony
14th century
Early Modern Logic
Converse with
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Simulacrum
Calculus Ratiocinator · Characteristica Universalis · Binary · Monads · Sufficient Reason
17th–18th century
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George Boole Simulacrum
Boolean Algebra · The Laws of Thought · Algebraic Logic · 0 and 1 · Logic as Mathematics
19th century
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C.S. Peirce Simulacrum
Abduction · Existential Graphs · Semiotics · Quantification · Pragmaticism
19th century
Foundations & Set Theory
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Euclid Simulacrum
Axiomatic Method · Geometry · Formal Proof · The Elements
3rd century BC
Converse with
Georg Cantor Simulacrum
Set Theory · Infinity · Cardinality · Transfinite Numbers · The Continuum Hypothesis
19th century
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Gottlob Frege Simulacrum
Predicate Logic · Begriffsschrift · Foundations of Arithmetic · Sense and Reference
19th–20th century
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Frege (Logic Specialist) Simulacrum
Predicate Logic · Begriffsschrift · Concept & Object · Function · Quantification · The Foundations of Arithmetic
19th–20th century
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David Hilbert Simulacrum
Formalism · Hilbert's Programme · Foundations · Metamathematics · The Decision Problem
19th–20th century
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Bertrand Russell Simulacrum
Principia Mathematica · Type Theory · Paradox · Logical Atomism · Foundations
20th century
Incompleteness & Computability
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Alonzo Church Simulacrum
Lambda Calculus · Church's Thesis · Undecidability · Higher-Order Logic
20th century
Converse with
Kurt Gödel Simulacrum
Incompleteness Theorems · Formal Systems · Constructible Universe · Consistency
20th century
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Gerhard Gentzen Simulacrum
Natural Deduction · Sequent Calculus · Cut-Elimination · The Hauptsatz · Proof Theory
20th century
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Alan Turing Simulacrum
Computability · The Turing Machine · The Halting Problem · Computable Numbers
20th century
Philosophical Logic
Converse with
Charles Dodgson Simulacrum
Symbolic Logic · Paradox · Games of Logic · Diagrams · Wonderland
19th century
Converse with
Jan Łukasiewicz Simulacrum
Many-Valued Logic · Polish Notation · History of Stoic Logic · Three-Valued Logic
20th century
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Simulacrum
Tractatus · Philosophical Investigations · Language Games · Forms of Life · Logic
20th century
Converse with
Rudolf Carnap Simulacrum
Logical Syntax · Logical Empiricism · Probability · Meaning Postulates · Aufbau
20th century
Converse with
Alfred Tarski Simulacrum
Formal Semantics · The Concept of Truth · Model Theory · Undefinability
20th century
Converse with
Saul Kripke Simulacrum
Modal Logic · Possible Worlds · Naming and Necessity · Rigid Designators
20th–21st century
Argumentation & Informal Logic
Converse with
Chaïm Perelman Simulacrum
The New Rhetoric · Audience · Argumentation Theory · Universal Audience
20th century
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Stephen Toulmin Simulacrum
The Uses of Argument · The Toulmin Model · Warrants · Backing · Field-Dependent Standards
20th century
Proof & Programming
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Haskell Curry Simulacrum
Combinatory Logic · Curry-Howard Correspondence · Type Theory · Paradox · Currying
20th century
Converse with
Edsger Dijkstra Simulacrum
Algorithms · Structured Programming · Program Correctness · Proof · Elegance
20th century
Intuitionism
Converse with
L.E.J. Brouwer Simulacrum
Intuitionism · Rejection of Excluded Middle · Choice Sequences · The Foundations Crisis
20th century
Converse with
Arend Heyting Simulacrum
Intuitionistic Logic · Heyting Algebras · BHK Interpretation · Formalising Brouwer
20th century
Logic & Science
Converse with
Dignāga Simulacrum
Buddhist Logic · Pramāṇasamuccaya · Theory of Inference · Apoha Doctrine · Epistemology
5th century
Converse with
Dharmakīrti Simulacrum
Buddhist Logic · Pramanavartika · Valid Cognition · Apoha Theory · Nalanda
7th century CE
Converse with
Karl Popper Simulacrum
Falsification · The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Critical Rationalism · The Open Society
20th century
Converse with
Imre Lakatos Simulacrum
Proofs and Refutations · Research Programmes · Quasi-Empiricism · The Methodology of Scientific Progress
20th century