Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2025

Department

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Keywords

Richard Whately, philosophers, logicians, texts, reasoning

Abstract

Logic developed dramatically during the last half of the nineteenth century. The baseline for these transformations in Great Britain was the revival of logic by Richard Whately around 1825. Whately successfully defended syllogistic logic as the science of valid reasoning against potent seventeenth and eighteenth-century detractors—Bacon, Locke, Reid, Campbell, Stewart, and others. In so doing, he made logic an intellectually respectable field of investigation for the next generation of logicians to explore and extend. This included John Stuart Mill (inductive logic), Augustus De Morgan (logic of relations), and George Boole (algebraic logic; propositional logic).

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ACMS Journal and Proceedings, May 2025

Source Publication Title

ACMS Journal and Proceedings

Publisher

Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences

Volume

24

First Page

11

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