This document outlines the development of logic from ancient times to modern periods. It begins with Nyaya philosophy in India, then covers pre-Aristotelian thinkers who engaged in argumentation. Aristotle is noted for developing syllogistic logic. Subsequent periods expanded on Aristotelian ideas through additions like hypothetical syllogisms. Modern logic revived with symbolic notation and connections to mathematics through thinkers like Leibniz, Frege, Russell and Whitehead. Formal logic systems were then established in the 20th century.
3. Nyaya Philosophy
(5th century BCE)
Attainment of
knowledge to be
free from sin
through the use of
logical arguments
Pre-Aristotelian Logic
Period
• Art of Argumentation (Eleatics,
Sophists & Megarics)
• Dialectics (Zeno of Elea)
• Definition and Induction (Plato
& Socrates)
Aristotelian Logic
Period
Syllogism
(Aristotle)
Post-Aristotelian
Logic Period
• Hypothetical Syllogism (Theophrastus)
• Logic as Part of Philosophy (Eudemus)
• Logic of Chrysippus
• Theory of the Compound Categorical
Syllogism (Galen)
• Coinage of the term “logic” (Boethius)
• Theory of Universals (Peter Abelard)
• Modal Logic (William of Occam)
• Displacement of Logic
Modern Logic Period
• Symbolic Logic (Leibniz)
• Inductive Method (Bacon)
• Mathematical Logic (Frege,
Whitehead, & Russell)
• Three Traditions of the
Development of Logic
• Formalization of Logical
Systems (Goedel)
• Logic in Technology
5. NYAYA PHILOSOPHY
Originated in India in 5th century CE
Authored by Siddhartha Gautama
“nyaya” means LOGICAL ARGUMENT or
SYLLOGISM
Attainment of knowledge to be free from
sin through the use of logical arguments
7. PRE-ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC
PERIOD
Arguments about the origin of the
universe
Later on, arguments of determining the
validity of thought-experiences
Used ARGUMENTS to be considered
trustworthy
Eleatics, Sophists & Megarics
devoted to the ART OF
ARGUMENTATION
8. ZENO OF ELEA
Founder of Dialectics
The dialectical method is discourse
between two or more people holding
different points of view about a subject,
who wish to establish the truth of the
matter guided by reasoned arguments.
10. ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC PERIOD
ARISTOTLE
First thinker to devise a logical system
Ideas:
•reduction and absurdum of Zeno
•propositional structure and negation of Parmenides
•argumentative techniques of Plato
developed the SYLLOGISTIC METHOD
Father of Logic
11. ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC PERIOD
A syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive
reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more
propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.
ORGANON
Aristotle’sTreatises in
Reasoning
Came to be called
LOGIC
16. Post-Aristotelian
Logic Period
PETER ABELARD
First major logician of the Middle Ages
Reconstructed and refined logic of Aristotle and
Chryssipus
originated theTheory of Universals
WILLIAM OF OCCAM
Devoted his attention to Modal Logic