Aristotle's logic

the deductivist view

pp. 95-114

in: Carlo Cellucci, Rethinking logic, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstract

As we have seen in Chapter 2, Aristotle claims to be the originator of logic as a subject. But what is Aristotle's logic? There are two alternative views, the deductivist view and the heuristic view. This chapter deals with the former, Chapter 7 with the latter.