Logica in de 17e eeuw

Hieronder een verslag van een lezing van Jaap Maat over het statuut van de logica in de 17e eeuw:

Maat's main thesis was that although logic wasn't an active field of research during the 17th century, it still had a big influence on academic life in general. In the 17th century, logicians focused almost exclusively on Aristotle's original logical works (the Organon), ignoring most of the late medieval contributions to logic. Furthermore, logic was criticized by Bacon and Descartes for not being concerned with nature and for not producing any new knowledge. Because of this intellectual climate, logic was regarded as a 'completed' subject and there was almost no active research in logic during this period. Despite this lack of original research, logic was omnipresent in academic life. First of all, it was widely taught: logic courses belonged to the curriculum of every university education (law, medicine, natural philosophy...). Hence, logic was part of the background material that every academic knew about. Furthermore, Maat also showed how logic influenced the construction of artificial languages, which was a popular project in this period. As a case study, he explained how the notions of logical form (underlying an expression's surface form) and logical primitives (which are not analyzable any further) played a central role in unsupported characters, or include a non-local or incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. You may be able to locate the desired page by searching for its name (with interwiki prefix, if any) in the search box.

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Dalgarno's Ars Signorum (1661).