Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts

The Difference between Traditional and Modern Logic and the Difference it Makes




This is the first two pages or so of a 20 page essay I wrote some years ago. I've gone back to it several times, realizing it needed more work. I am going to use the recent article by Peter Kreeft in Touchstone Magazine and the recent response at First Thoughts as an excuse to go ahead and start posting it in pieces here to give me an excuse to finish it. It is still in draft form and parts of

Traditional vs. Modern Logic: A short response to William Randolf Brafford's response to Peter Kreeft



I am going to post an article tomorrow that I worked on a few years ago on the differences between the traditional Aristotelian system of logic that I use in my logic texts (and which is still used at many Catholic schools) and the modern system that is emphasized in most college logic courses today. 

In the meantime, here is a response I wrote to William Randolf Brafford, who wrote an article
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