Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2-23-2023

Department

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Keywords

Richard Whately, logic, syllogism, development, Aristotle

Abstract

This is an expanded version of the first chapter Richard Whately’s Revitalization of Syllogistic Logic in Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic edited by Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci (Bloomsbury, 2023). Drawing upon the author’s 1982 Ph. D. dissertation (https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/faculty_work/230/ ) and more current scholarship, this essay traces the critical historical background to Whately’s work in more detail than could be done in the published version.

Source Publication Title

Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic Between Tradition and Innovation, 1820s-1930s

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

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