Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking

A new translation of the treatise which inspired modern developments in logic and semantic theory.

Antoine Arnauld (Author), Pierre Nicole (Author), Jill Vance Buroker (Edited by)

9780521482493, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 1996

324 pages, 1 table
23.5 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.583 kg

"This edition presents a new translation of the text, together with a historical introduction and suggestions for further reading." Mathematical Reviews

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a centre of the Catholic Jansenist movement in seventeenth-century France. Their enormously influential Logic or the Art of Thinking, which went through five editions in their lifetimes, treats topics in logic, language, theory of knowledge and metaphysics, and also articulates the response of 'heretical' Jansenist Catholicism to orthodox Catholic and Protestant views on grace, free will and the sacraments. In attempting to combine the categorical theory of the proposition with a Cartesian account of knowledge, their Logic represents the classical view of judgment which inspired the modern transformation in logic and semantic theory by Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein and recent philosophers. This edition presents a new translation of the text, together with a historical introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
First discourse
Second discourse
First part, containing reflections on ideas
Second part of the logic, containing reflections people have made about their judgments
Third part of the logic, on reasoning
Fourth part of the logic, on method
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]