Our purpose in writing this book is to provide the reader with some basic concepts in logic as a preparation for further studies in philosophy. We have put together in one volume the subject covered in formal logic (the study of the forms of logical reasoning) and material logic (the study of the philosophical foundation of the forms of reasoning). It is our hope that the book serves its pedagogical purpose, and the reader find it a good introduction to the study of logic in the light of metaphysical principles.
Author(s): Juan José Sanguineti
Series: Philosophical Book Series
Edition: 1st.
Publisher: Sinag-Tala Publishers
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 254
City: Makati City
Introduction
I. Logic as a science (I)
II. Logic as a science (II)
Part I. The logic of concepts
I. Concepts and abstraction
II. The universality of concepts and the singularity of real beings
III. Language as the expression of thought
IV. The analogical meaning of concepts
V. Predicables, the logical modes of the universals
VI. Definition, division and opposition of concepts
Part II. The logic of the proposition
I. The proposition in general
II. Kinds of propositions
Part III. The logic of reasoning
I. General characteristic of reasoning
II. Analysis of reasoning: the syllogism
III. Induction
IV. Fallacies
Part IV. Scientific Knowledge
I. Nature and object of scientific knowledge
II. Philosophy and the particular sciences
III. Order of the sciences
IV. The scientific method
V. The principles of scientific knowledge
