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Greek Tradition. Both: Plato Aristotle Aristotle

Modern logic originated from Ancient Greek traditions established by Plato and Aristotle, who conceived of logic as the study of arguments and correctness of argumentation. Aristotle produced six works on logic known as the Organon, including the Prior Analytics which was the first explicit work in formal logic. He espoused principles of excluded middle and non-contradiction and introduced the syllogism, further refined by his followers the Peripatetics. In medieval times, Aristotelian logic was studied as part of the trivium, the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education.

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Greek Tradition. Both: Plato Aristotle Aristotle

Modern logic originated from Ancient Greek traditions established by Plato and Aristotle, who conceived of logic as the study of arguments and correctness of argumentation. Aristotle produced six works on logic known as the Organon, including the Prior Analytics which was the first explicit work in formal logic. He espoused principles of excluded middle and non-contradiction and introduced the syllogism, further refined by his followers the Peripatetics. In medieval times, Aristotelian logic was studied as part of the trivium, the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education.

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But modern logic descends mainly from the Ancient

Greek tradition. Both Platoand Aristotle conceived of logic


as the study of argument and from a concern with
correctness of argumentation. Aristotle produced six
works on logic, known collectively as the "Organon", the
first of these, the "Prior Analytics", being the first explicit
work in formal logic.
Aristotle espoused two principles of great importance in
logic, the Law of Excluded Middle (that every statement
is either true or false) and the Law of Non-
Contradiction (confusingly, also known as the Law of
Contradiction, that no statement is both true and false).
He is perhaps most famous for introducing
the syllogism (or term logic) (see the section on
Deductive Logic below). His followers, known as
the Peripatetics, further refined his work on logic.
In medieval times, Aristotelian logic (or dialectics) was
studied, along with grammar and rhetoric, as one of the
three main strands of the trivium, the foundation of a
medieval liberal arts education.

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