categorical logic

<history of philosophy, philosophy of science, logic> the traditional interpretation of the logic of classes developed by Aristotle and the medieval logicians. Recommended Reading: Aristotle, Prior Analytics, ed. by Robin Smith (Hackett, 1989) and Jan Lukasiewicz, Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic (Clarendon, 1957).

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