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Formalism (mathematics)

In foundations of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic, formalism is a theory that holdsthat statements of mathematics and logic can be considered to be statements about the consequences of certain stringmanipulation rules.For example, Euclidean geometry can be considered a game whose play consists in moving around certain strings ofsymbols called axioms according to a set of rules called "rules of inference" to generate new strings. In playing thisgame one can “prove” that the Pythagorean theorem is valid because the string representing the Pythagorean theoremcan be constructed using only the stated rules.According to formalism, the truths expressed in logic and mathematics are not about numbers, sets, or triangles orany other contensive subject matter — in fact, they aren't “about” anything at all. They are syntactic forms whoseshapes and locations have no meaning unless they are given an interpretation (or semantics).Formalism is associated with rigorous method. In common use, a formalismmeans the out-turn of the effort towardsformalisation of a given limited area. In other words, matters can be formally discussed once captured in a formalsystem, or commonly enough within something formalisable with claims to be one. Complete formalisation is in thedomain of computer science.Formalism stresses axiomatic proofs using theorems, specifically associated with David Hilbert. A formalist is anindividual who belongs to the school of formalism, which is a certain mathematical-philosophical doctrine descendingfrom Hilbert.Formalists are relatively tolerant and inviting to new approaches to logic, non-standard number systems, new settheories, etc. The more games we study, the better. However, in all three of these examples, motivation is drawnfrom existing mathematical or philosophical concerns. The “games” are usually not arbitrary.Recently, some formalist mathematicians have proposed that all of our formal mathematical knowledge should besystematically encoded in computer-readable formats, in order to facilitate automated proof checking ofmathematicalproofs and the use of interactive theorem proving in the development ofmathematical theories and computer software.Because of their close connection with computer science, this idea is also advocated by mathematical intuitionists andconstructivists in the “computability” tradition (see below).

1.1 Deductivism

Main article: Hypothetico-deductive model

Another version of formalism is often known as deductivism. In deductivism, the Pythagorean theorem is not anabsolute truth, but a relative one.This is to say, that if you interpret the strings in such a way that the rules of the game become true then you have toaccept that the theorem, or, rather, the interpretation of the theorem you have given it must be a true statement. (Therules of such a game would have to include, for instance, that true statements are assigned to the axioms, and that therules of inference are truth-preserving, etcetera.)Under deductivism, the same view is held to be true for all other statements of formal logic and mathematics. Thus,

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formalism need not mean that these deductive sciences are nothing more than meaningless symbolic games. It isusually hoped that there exists some interpretation in which the rules of the game hold. Compare this position tostructuralism.Taking the deductivist view allows the working mathematician to suspend judgement on the deep philosophical ques-tions and proceed as if solid epistemological foundations were available. Many formalists would say that in practice,the axiom systems to be studied are suggested by the demands of the particular science.

1.2 Hilbert’s formalism

Amajor early proponent of formalismwasDavidHilbert, whose programwas intended to be a complete and consistentaxiomatization of all of mathematics. Hilbert aimed to show the consistency of mathematical systems from theassumption that the “finitary arithmetic” (a subsystem of the usual arithmetic of the positive integers, chosen to bephilosophically uncontroversial) was consistent (i.e. no contradictions can be derived from the system).The way that Hilbert tried to show that an axiomatic system was consistent was by formalizing it using a particularlanguage (Snapper, 1979). In order to formalize an axiomatic system, you must first choose a language in which youcan express and perform operations within that system. This language must include five components:

• It must include variables such as x, which can stand for some number.

• It must have quantifiers such as the symbol for the existence of an object.

• It must include equality.

• It must include connectives such as ↔ for “if and only if.”

• It must include certain undefined terms called parameters. For geometry, these undefined terms might besomething like a point or a line, which we still choose symbols for.

Once we choose this language, Hilbert thought that we could prove all theorems within any axiomatic system usingnothing more than the axioms themselves and the chosen formal language.Gödel’s conclusion in his incompleteness theorems was that you cannot prove consistency within any axiomatic systemrich enough to include classical arithmetic. On the one hand, you must use only the formal language chosen toformalize this axiomatic system; on the other hand, it is impossible to prove the consistency of this language in itself(Snapper, 1979). Hilbert was originally frustrated by Gödel’s work because it shattered his life’s goal to completelyformalize everything in number theory (Reid and Weyl, 1970). However, Gödel did not feel that he contradictedeverything about Hilbert’s formalist point of view. After Gödel published his work, it became apparent that prooftheory still had some use, the only difference is that it could not be used to prove the consistency of all of number theoryas Hilbert had hoped (Reid and Weyl, 1970). Present-day formalists use proof theory to further our understandingin mathematics, but perhaps because of Gödel’s work, they make no claims about semantic meaning in the workthat they do with mathematics. Proofs are simply the manipulation of symbols in our formal language starting fromcertain rules that we call axioms.It is important to note that Hilbert is not considered a strict formalist as formalism is defined today. He thought therewas some meaning and truth in mathematics, which is precisely why he was trying to prove the consistency of numbertheory. If number theory turned out to be consistent, then there had to be some sort of truth in it (Goodman, 1979).Strict formalists consider mathematics apart from its semantic meaning. They view mathematics as pure syntax: themanipulation of symbols according to certain rules. They then attempt to show that this set of rules is consistent,much like Hilbert attempted to do (Goodman, 1979). Formalists currently believe that computerized algorithms willeventually take over the task of constructing proofs. Computers will replace humans in all mathematical activities,such as checking to see if a proof is correct or not (Goodman, 1979).Hilbert was initially a deductivist, but, he considered certain metamathematical methods to yield intrinsically mean-ingful results and was a realist with respect to the finitary arithmetic. Later, he held the opinion that there was noother meaningful mathematics whatsoever, regardless of interpretation.

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1.3 Axiomatic systems

Other formalists, such as Rudolf Carnap, Alfred Tarski and Haskell Curry, considered mathematics to be the inves-tigation of formal axiom systems. Mathematical logicians study formal systems but are just as often realists as theyare formalists.

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1.4 Principia Mathematica

Perhaps the most serious attempt to formalize number theory was by the two mathematicians Bertrand Russell andAlfred North Whitehead. They created a work, Principia Mathematica, which derived number theory by the ma-nipulation of symbols using formal logic. This work was very detailed, and they spent the better part of a decade inwriting it. It was not until page 379 of the first volume that they were even able to prove that 1+1=2.Russell’s philosophy of mathematics was not formalist, however; it is usually considered a form of logicism. Hestrongly criticized Hilbert’s formalism.

1.5 Criticisms of formalism

Gödel indicated one of the weak points of formalism by addressing the question of consistency in axiomatic systems.More recent criticisms lie in the assertion of formalists that it is possible to computerize all of mathematics. Thesecriticisms bring up the philosophical question of whether or not computers are able to think. Turing tests, namedafter Alan Turing, who created the test, are an attempt to provide criteria for judging when a computer is capableof thought. The existence of a computer which in principle could pass a Turing test would prove to formalists thatcomputers will be able to do all of mathematics. However, there are opponents of this claim, such as John Searle,who came up with the "Chinese room" thought experiment. He presented the argument that while a computer maybe able to manipulate the symbols that we give it, the machine could attach no meaning to these symbols. Sincecomputers will not be able to deal with semantic content in mathematics (Penrose, 1989), they could not be said to“think.”Further, humans can create several ways to prove the same result, even if they might find it challenging to articulatesuch methods. Since creativity requires thought having a semantic foundation, a computer would not be able to createdifferent methods of solving the same problem. Indeed, a formalist would not be able to say that these other ways ofsolving problems exist simply because they have not been formalized (Goodman, 1979).Another critique of formalism is that the actual mathematical ideas that occupy mathematicians are far removed fromthe string manipulation games mentioned above. Formalism is thus silent to the question of which axiom systemsought to be studied, as none is more meaningful than another from a formalistic point of view.

1.6 See also• QED project

• Mathematical formalism

• Formalized mathematics

1.7 References• Goodman, Nicholas D. “Mathematics as an Objective Science.” The American Mathematical Monthly 86.7(1979): 540-551. Print.

• Penrose, Roger. The Emperor’s New Mind: concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. Oxford:Oxford UP, 1989. Print.

• Reid, Constance, and Hermann Weyl. Hilbert. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1970. Print.

• Snapper, Ernst. “The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism and Formalism.” MathematicsMagazine 52.4 (1979): 207-16. Print.

• Weir, Alan: “Formalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011).

Chapter 2

Logic

This article is about reasoning and its study. For other uses, see Logic (disambiguation).

Logic (from the Ancient Greek: λογική, logike)[1] is the branch of philosophy concerned with the use and study ofvalid reasoning.[2][3] The study of logic also features prominently in mathematics and computer science.Logic was studied in several ancient civilizations, including Greece, India,[4] and China.[5] In the West, logic wasestablished as a formal discipline by Aristotle, who gave it a fundamental place in philosophy. The study of logic waspart of the classical trivium, which also included grammar and rhetoric. Logic was further extended by Al-Farabi whocategorized it into two separate groups (idea and proof). Later, Avicenna revived the study of logic and developedrelationship between temporalis and the implication. In the East, logic was developed by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains.Logic is often divided into three parts: inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning.

2.1 The study of logic

The concept of logical form is central to logic, it being held that the validity of an argument is determined by itslogical form, not by its content. Traditional Aristotelian syllogistic logic and modern symbolic logic are examples offormal logics.

• Informal logic is the study of natural language arguments. The study of fallacies is an especially importantbranch of informal logic. The dialogues of Plato[6] are good examples of informal logic.

• Formal logic is the study of inference with purely formal content. An inference possesses a purely formalcontent if it can be expressed as a particular application of a wholly abstract rule, that is, a rule that is notabout any particular thing or property. The works of Aristotle contain the earliest known formal study of logic.Modern formal logic follows and expands on Aristotle.[7] In many definitions of logic, logical inference andinference with purely formal content are the same. This does not render the notion of informal logic vacuous,because no formal logic captures all of the nuances of natural language.

• Symbolic logic is the study of symbolic abstractions that capture the formal features of logical inference.[8][9]Symbolic logic is often divided into two branches: propositional logic and predicate logic.

• Mathematical logic is an extension of symbolic logic into other areas, in particular to the study of modeltheory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory.

However, agreement on what logic is has remained elusive, and although the field of universal logic has studied thecommon structure of logics, in 2007 Mossakowski et al commented that “it is embarrassing that there is no widelyacceptable formal definition of 'a logic'".[10]

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2.1.1 Logical form

Main article: Logical form

Logic is generally considered formal when it analyzes and represents the form of any valid argument type. The formof an argument is displayed by representing its sentences in the formal grammar and symbolism of a logical languageto make its content usable in formal inference. If one considers the notion of form too philosophically loaded, onecould say that formalizing simply means translating English sentences into the language of logic.This is called showing the logical form of the argument. It is necessary because indicative sentences of ordinarylanguage show a considerable variety of form and complexity that makes their use in inference impractical. It requires,first, ignoring those grammatical features irrelevant to logic (such as gender and declension, if the argument is inLatin), replacing conjunctions irrelevant to logic (such as “but”) with logical conjunctions like “and” and replacingambiguous, or alternative logical expressions (“any”, “every”, etc.) with expressions of a standard type (such as “all”,or the universal quantifier ∀).Second, certain parts of the sentence must be replaced with schematic letters. Thus, for example, the expression“all As are Bs” shows the logical form common to the sentences “all men are mortals”, “all cats are carnivores”, “allGreeks are philosophers”, and so on.That the concept of form is fundamental to logic was already recognized in ancient times. Aristotle uses variableletters to represent valid inferences in Prior Analytics, leading Jan Łukasiewicz to say that the introduction of variableswas “one of Aristotle’s greatest inventions”.[11] According to the followers of Aristotle (such as Ammonius), only thelogical principles stated in schematic terms belong to logic, not those given in concrete terms. The concrete terms“man”, “mortal”, etc., are analogous to the substitution values of the schematic placeholders A, B, C, which werecalled the “matter” (Greek hyle) of the inference.The fundamental difference between modern formal logic and traditional, or Aristotelian logic, lies in their differinganalysis of the logical form of the sentences they treat.

• In the traditional view, the form of the sentence consists of (1) a subject (e.g., “man”) plus a sign of quantity(“all” or “some” or “no”); (2) the copula, which is of the form “is” or “is not"; (3) a predicate (e.g., “mortal”).Thus: all men are mortal. The logical constants such as “all”, “no” and so on, plus sentential connectivessuch as “and” and “or” were called syncategorematic terms (from the Greek kategorei – to predicate, and syn –together with). This is a fixed scheme, where each judgment has an identified quantity and copula, determiningthe logical form of the sentence.

• According to the modern view, the fundamental form of a simple sentence is given by a recursive schema,involving logical connectives, such as a quantifier with its bound variable, which are joined by juxtaposition toother sentences, which in turn may have logical structure.

• The modern view is more complex, since a single judgement of Aristotle’s system involves two or more logicalconnectives. For example, the sentence “All men are mortal” involves, in term logic, two non-logical terms “isa man” (hereM) and “is mortal” (here D): the sentence is given by the judgement A(M,D). In predicate logic,the sentence involves the same two non-logical concepts, here analyzed as m(x) and d(x) , and the sentenceis given by ∀x.(m(x) → d(x)) , involving the logical connectives for universal quantification and implication.

• But equally, the modern view is more powerful. Medieval logicians recognized the problem of multiple gen-erality, where Aristotelian logic is unable to satisfactorily render such sentences as “Some guys have all theluck”, because both quantities “all” and “some” may be relevant in an inference, but the fixed scheme thatAristotle used allows only one to govern the inference. Just as linguists recognize recursive structure in naturallanguages, it appears that logic needs recursive structure.

2.1.2 Deductive and inductive reasoning, and abductive inference

Deductive reasoning concerns what follows necessarily from given premises (if a, then b). However, inductive reason-ing—the process of deriving a reliable inference from observations—is often included in the study of logic. Similarly,it is important to distinguish deductive validity and inductive validity (called “strength”). An inference is deductivelyvalid if and only if there is no possible situation in which all the premises are true but the conclusion false. Aninference is inductively strong if and only if its premises give some degree of probability to its conclusion.

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The notion of deductive validity can be rigorously stated for systems of formal logic in terms of the well-understoodnotions of semantics. Inductive validity on the other hand requires us to define a reliable generalization of some set ofobservations. The task of providing this definition may be approached in various ways, some less formal than others;some of these definitions may use logical association rule induction, while others may use mathematical models ofprobability such as decision trees. For the most part this discussion of logic deals only with deductive logic.Abduction[12] is a form of logical inference that goes from observation to a hypothesis that accounts for the reliabledata (observation) and seeks to explain relevant evidence. The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) first introduced the term as “guessing”.[13] Peirce said that to abduce a hypothetical explanation a from anobserved surprising circumstance b is to surmise that a may be true because then b would be a matter of course.[14]Thus, to abduce a from b involves determining that a is sufficient (or nearly sufficient), but not necessary, for b .

2.1.3 Consistency, validity, soundness, and completeness

Among the important properties that logical systems can have are:

• Consistency, which means that no theorem of the system contradicts another.[15]

• Validity, which means that the system’s rules of proof never allow a false inference from true premises. Alogical system has the property of soundness when the logical system has the property of validity and uses onlypremises that prove true (or, in the case of axioms, are true by definition).[15]

• Completeness, which means that if a formula is true, it can be proven (if it is true, it is a theorem of thesystem).

• Soundness, which has multiple separate meanings, creating a bit of confusion throughout the literature. Mostcommonly, soundness refers to logical systems, which means that if some formula can be proven in a system,then it is true in the relevant model/structure (if A is a theorem, it is true). This is the converse of completeness.A distinct, peripheral use of soundness refers to arguments, which means that the premises of a valid argumentare true in the actual world.

Some logical systems do not have all four properties. As an example, Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems showthat sufficiently complex formal systems of arithmetic cannot be consistent and complete;[9] however, first-orderpredicate logics not extended by specific axioms to be arithmetic formal systems with equality can be complete andconsistent.[16]

2.1.4 Rival conceptions of logic

Main article: Definitions of logic

Logic arose (see below) from a concern with correctness of argumentation. Modern logicians usually wish to ensurethat logic studies just those arguments that arise from appropriately general forms of inference. For example, ThomasHofweber writes in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that logic “does not, however, cover good reasoning asa whole. That is the job of the theory of rationality. Rather it deals with inferences whose validity can be traced backto the formal features of the representations that are involved in that inference, be they linguistic, mental, or otherrepresentations”.[17]

By contrast, Immanuel Kant argued that logic should be conceived as the science of judgement, an idea taken up inGottlob Frege's logical and philosophical work. But Frege’s work is ambiguous in the sense that it is both concernedwith the “laws of thought” as well as with the “laws of truth”, i.e. it both treats logic in the context of a theory of themind, and treats logic as the study of abstract formal structures.

2.2 History

Main article: History of logicIn Europe, logic was first developed by Aristotle.[18] Aristotelian logic became widely accepted in science and mathe-matics and remained in wide use in theWest until the early 19th century.[19] Aristotle’s system of logic was responsible

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Aristotle, 384–322 BCE.

for the introduction of hypothetical syllogism,[20] temporal modal logic,[21][22] and inductive logic,[23] as well as in-fluential terms such as terms, predicables, syllogisms and propositions. In Europe during the later medieval period,major efforts were made to show that Aristotle’s ideas were compatible with Christian faith. During the High MiddleAges, logic became a main focus of philosophers, who would engage in critical logical analyses of philosophicalarguments, often using variations of the methodology of scholasticism. In 1323, William of Ockham's influentialSumma Logicae was released. By the 18th century, the structured approach to arguments had degenerated and fallenout of favour, as depicted in Holberg's satirical play Erasmus Montanus.

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The Chinese logical philosopher Gongsun Long (c. 325–250 BCE) proposed the paradox “One and one cannotbecome two, since neither becomes two.”[24] In China, the tradition of scholarly investigation into logic, however,was repressed by the Qin dynasty following the legalist philosophy of Han Feizi.In India, innovations in the scholastic school, called Nyaya, continued from ancient times into the early 18th centurywith the Navya-Nyaya school. By the 16th century, it developed theories resembling modern logic, such as GottlobFrege's “distinction between sense and reference of proper names” and his “definition of number”, as well as thetheory of “restrictive conditions for universals” anticipating some of the developments in modern set theory.[25] Since1824, Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on important 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and George Boole.[26] In the 20th century, Westernphilosophers like Stanislaw Schayer and Klaus Glashoff have explored Indian logic more extensively.The syllogistic logic developed by Aristotle predominated in theWest until the mid-19th century, when interest in thefoundations of mathematics stimulated the development of symbolic logic (now called mathematical logic). In 1854,George Boole published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theoriesof Logic and Probabilities, introducing symbolic logic and the principles of what is now known as Boolean logic.In 1879, Gottlob Frege published Begriffsschrift, which inaugurated modern logic with the invention of quantifiernotation. From 1910 to 1913, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell published Principia Mathematica[8]on the foundations of mathematics, attempting to derive mathematical truths from axioms and inference rules insymbolic logic. In 1931, Gödel raised serious problems with the foundationalist program and logic ceased to focuson such issues.The development of logic since Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein had a profound influence on the practice of philos-ophy and the perceived nature of philosophical problems (see Analytic philosophy), and Philosophy of mathematics.Logic, especially sentential logic, is implemented in computer logic circuits and is fundamental to computer science.Logic is commonly taught by university philosophy departments, often as a compulsory discipline.

2.3 Types of logic

2.3.1 Syllogistic logic

Main article: Aristotelian logic

The Organon was Aristotle's body of work on logic, with the Prior Analytics constituting the first explicit work informal logic, introducing the syllogistic.[27] The parts of syllogistic logic, also known by the name term logic, arethe analysis of the judgements into propositions consisting of two terms that are related by one of a fixed number ofrelations, and the expression of inferences by means of syllogisms that consist of two propositions sharing a commonterm as premise, and a conclusion that is a proposition involving the two unrelated terms from the premises.Aristotle’s work was regarded in classical times and from medieval times in Europe and the Middle East as the verypicture of a fully worked out system. However, it was not alone: the Stoics proposed a system of propositional logicthat was studied by medieval logicians. Also, the problem of multiple generality was recognized in medieval times.Nonetheless, problems with syllogistic logic were not seen as being in need of revolutionary solutions.Today, some academics claim that Aristotle’s system is generally seen as having little more than historical value(though there is some current interest in extending term logics), regarded as made obsolete by the advent of propo-sitional logic and the predicate calculus. Others use Aristotle in argumentation theory to help develop and criticallyquestion argumentation schemes that are used in artificial intelligence and legal arguments.

2.3.2 Propositional logic (sentential logic)

Main article: Propositional calculus

A propositional calculus or logic (also a sentential calculus) is a formal system in which formulae representing propo-sitions can be formed by combining atomic propositions using logical connectives, and in which a system of formalproof rules establishes certain formulae as “theorems”.

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2.3.3 Predicate logic

Main article: Predicate logic

Predicate logic is the generic term for symbolic formal systems such as first-order logic, second-order logic, many-sorted logic, and infinitary logic.Predicate logic provides an account of quantifiers general enough to express a wide set of arguments occurring innatural language. Aristotelian syllogistic logic specifies a small number of forms that the relevant part of the involvedjudgements may take. Predicate logic allows sentences to be analysed into subject and argument in several additionalways—allowing predicate logic to solve the problem of multiple generality that had perplexed medieval logicians.The development of predicate logic is usually attributed to Gottlob Frege, who is also credited as one of the foundersof analytical philosophy, but the formulation of predicate logic most often used today is the first-order logic presentedin Principles of Mathematical Logic by David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann in 1928. The analytical generalityof predicate logic allowed the formalization of mathematics, drove the investigation of set theory, and allowed thedevelopment of Alfred Tarski's approach to model theory. It provides the foundation of modern mathematical logic.Frege’s original system of predicate logic was second-order, rather than first-order. Second-order logic is mostprominently defended (against the criticism of Willard Van Orman Quine and others) by George Boolos and StewartShapiro.

2.3.4 Modal logic

Main article: Modal logic

In languages, modality deals with the phenomenon that sub-parts of a sentence may have their semantics modifiedby special verbs or modal particles. For example, "We go to the games" can be modified to give "We should go to thegames", and "We can go to the games" and perhaps "We will go to the games". More abstractly, we might say thatmodality affects the circumstances in which we take an assertion to be satisfied.Aristotle's logic is in large parts concerned with the theory of non-modalized logic. Although, there are passagesin his work, such as the famous sea-battle argument in De Interpretatione § 9, that are now seen as anticipations ofmodal logic and its connection with potentiality and time, the earliest formal system of modal logic was developedby Avicenna, whom ultimately developed a theory of "temporally modalized" syllogistic.[28]

While the study of necessity and possibility remained important to philosophers, little logical innovation happeneduntil the landmark investigations of Clarence Irving Lewis in 1918, who formulated a family of rival axiomatizationsof the alethic modalities. His work unleashed a torrent of new work on the topic, expanding the kinds of modalitytreated to include deontic logic and epistemic logic. The seminal work of Arthur Prior applied the same formallanguage to treat temporal logic and paved the way for the marriage of the two subjects. Saul Kripke discovered(contemporaneously with rivals) his theory of frame semantics, which revolutionized the formal technology availableto modal logicians and gave a new graph-theoretic way of looking at modality that has driven many applications incomputational linguistics and computer science, such as dynamic logic.

2.3.5 Informal reasoning

Main article: Informal logic

The motivation for the study of logic in ancient times was clear: it is so that one may learn to distinguish goodfrom bad arguments, and so become more effective in argument and oratory, and perhaps also to become a betterperson. Half of the works of Aristotle’s Organon treat inference as it occurs in an informal setting, side by sidewith the development of the syllogistic, and in the Aristotelian school, these informal works on logic were seen ascomplementary to Aristotle’s treatment of rhetoric.This ancient motivation is still alive, although it no longer takes centre stage in the picture of logic; typically dialecticallogic forms the heart of a course in critical thinking, a compulsory course at many universities.Argumentation theory is the study and research of informal logic, fallacies, and critical questions as they relate to

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every day and practical situations. Specific types of dialogue can be analyzed and questioned to reveal premises,conclusions, and fallacies. Argumentation theory is now applied in artificial intelligence and law.

2.3.6 Mathematical logic

Main article: Mathematical logic

Mathematical logic really refers to two distinct areas of research: the first is the application of the techniques offormal logic to mathematics and mathematical reasoning, and the second, in the other direction, the application ofmathematical techniques to the representation and analysis of formal logic.[29]

The earliest use of mathematics and geometry in relation to logic and philosophy goes back to the ancient Greekssuch as Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle.[30] Many other ancient and medieval philosophers applied mathematical ideasand methods to their philosophical claims.[31]

One of the boldest attempts to apply logic to mathematics was undoubtedly the logicism pioneered by philosopher-logicians such as Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell: the idea was that mathematical theories were logical tautologies,and the programme was to show this by means to a reduction of mathematics to logic.[8] The various attempts to carrythis out met with a series of failures, from the crippling of Frege’s project in his Grundgesetze by Russell’s paradox,to the defeat of Hilbert’s program by Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.Both the statement of Hilbert’s program and its refutation by Gödel depended upon their work establishing the secondarea of mathematical logic, the application of mathematics to logic in the form of proof theory.[32] Despite thenegative nature of the incompleteness theorems, Gödel’s completeness theorem, a result in model theory and anotherapplication of mathematics to logic, can be understood as showing how close logicism came to being true: everyrigorously defined mathematical theory can be exactly captured by a first-order logical theory; Frege’s proof calculusis enough to describe the whole of mathematics, though not equivalent to it.If proof theory and model theory have been the foundation of mathematical logic, they have been but two of the fourpillars of the subject. Set theory originated in the study of the infinite by Georg Cantor, and it has been the source ofmany of the most challenging and important issues in mathematical logic, from Cantor’s theorem, through the statusof the Axiom of Choice and the question of the independence of the continuum hypothesis, to the modern debate onlarge cardinal axioms.Recursion theory captures the idea of computation in logical and arithmetic terms; its most classical achievements arethe undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem by Alan Turing, and his presentation of the Church–Turing thesis.[33]Today recursion theory is mostly concerned with the more refined problem of complexity classes—when is a problemefficiently solvable?—and the classification of degrees of unsolvability.[34]

2.3.7 Philosophical logic

Main article: Philosophical logic

Philosophical logic deals with formal descriptions of ordinary, non-specialist (“natural”) language. Most philosophersassume that the bulk of everyday reasoning can be captured in logic if a method or methods to translate ordinarylanguage into that logic can be found. Philosophical logic is essentially a continuation of the traditional disciplinecalled “logic” before the invention of mathematical logic. Philosophical logic has a much greater concern with theconnection between natural language and logic. As a result, philosophical logicians have contributed a great deal tothe development of non-standard logics (e.g. free logics, tense logics) as well as various extensions of classical logic(e.g. modal logics) and non-standard semantics for such logics (e.g. Kripke's supervaluationism in the semantics oflogic).Logic and the philosophy of language are closely related. Philosophy of language has to do with the study of how ourlanguage engages and interacts with our thinking. Logic has an immediate impact on other areas of study. Studyinglogic and the relationship between logic and ordinary speech can help a person better structure his own argumentsand critique the arguments of others. Many popular arguments are filled with errors because so many people areuntrained in logic and unaware of how to formulate an argument correctly.[35][36]

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2.3.8 Computational logic

Main articles: Computational logic and Logic in computer science

Logic cut to the heart of computer science as it emerged as a discipline: Alan Turing's work on theEntscheidungsproblemfollowed from Kurt Gödel's work on the incompleteness theorems. The notion of the general purpose computer thatcame from this work was of fundamental importance to the designers of the computer machinery in the 1940s.In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers predicted that when human knowledge could be expressed using logic withmathematical notation, it would be possible to create a machine that reasons, or artificial intelligence. This was moredifficult than expected because of the complexity of human reasoning. In logic programming, a program consists ofa set of axioms and rules. Logic programming systems such as Prolog compute the consequences of the axioms andrules in order to answer a query.Today, logic is extensively applied in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science, and these fieldsprovide a rich source of problems in formal and informal logic. Argumentation theory is one good example of howlogic is being applied to artificial intelligence. The ACM Computing Classification System in particular regards:

• Section F.3 on Logics and meanings of programs and F.4 on Mathematical logic and formal languages as partof the theory of computer science: this work covers formal semantics of programming languages, as well aswork of formal methods such as Hoare logic;

• Boolean logic as fundamental to computer hardware: particularly, the system’s section B.2 on Arithmetic andlogic structures, relating to operatives AND, NOT, and OR;

• Many fundamental logical formalisms are essential to section I.2 on artificial intelligence, for example modallogic and default logic in Knowledge representation formalisms and methods, Horn clauses in logic program-ming, and description logic.

Furthermore, computers can be used as tools for logicians. For example, in symbolic logic and mathematical logic,proofs by humans can be computer-assisted. Using automated theorem proving the machines can find and checkproofs, as well as work with proofs too lengthy to write out by hand.

2.3.9 Bivalence and the law of the excluded middle; non-classical logics

Main article: Principle of bivalence

The logics discussed above are all "bivalent" or “two-valued"; that is, they are most naturally understood as dividingpropositions into true and false propositions. Non-classical logics are those systems that reject bivalence.Hegel developed his own dialectic logic that extended Kant's transcendental logic but also brought it back to groundby assuring us that “neither in heaven nor in earth, neither in the world of mind nor of nature, is there anywhere suchan abstract 'either–or' as the understanding maintains. Whatever exists is concrete, with difference and opposition initself”.[37]

In 1910, Nicolai A. Vasiliev extended the law of excluded middle and the law of contradiction and proposed the lawof excluded fourth and logic tolerant to contradiction.[38] In the early 20th century Jan Łukasiewicz investigated theextension of the traditional true/false values to include a third value, “possible”, so inventing ternary logic, the firstmulti-valued logic.[39]

Logics such as fuzzy logic have since been devised with an infinite number of “degrees of truth”, represented by areal number between 0 and 1.[40]

Intuitionistic logic was proposed by L.E.J. Brouwer as the correct logic for reasoning about mathematics, based uponhis rejection of the law of the excluded middle as part of his intuitionism. Brouwer rejected formalization in math-ematics, but his student Arend Heyting studied intuitionistic logic formally, as did Gerhard Gentzen. Intuitionisticlogic is of great interest to computer scientists, as it is a constructive logic and can be applied for extracting verifiedprograms from proofs.Modal logic is not truth conditional, and so it has often been proposed as a non-classical logic. However, modallogic is normally formalized with the principle of the excluded middle, and its relational semantics is bivalent, so thisinclusion is disputable.

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2.3.10 “Is logic empirical?"

Main article: Is logic empirical?

What is the epistemological status of the laws of logic? What sort of argument is appropriate for criticizing purportedprinciples of logic? In an influential paper entitled “Is logic empirical?"[41] Hilary Putnam, building on a suggestionof W. V. Quine, argued that in general the facts of propositional logic have a similar epistemological status as factsabout the physical universe, for example as the laws of mechanics or of general relativity, and in particular thatwhat physicists have learned about quantum mechanics provides a compelling case for abandoning certain familiarprinciples of classical logic: if we want to be realists about the physical phenomena described by quantum theory,then we should abandon the principle of distributivity, substituting for classical logic the quantum logic proposed byGarrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann.[42]

Another paper of the same name by Sir Michael Dummett argues that Putnam’s desire for realismmandates the law ofdistributivity.[43] Distributivity of logic is essential for the realist’s understanding of how propositions are true of theworld in just the sameway as he has argued the principle of bivalence is. In this way, the question, “Is logic empirical?"can be seen to lead naturally into the fundamental controversy in metaphysics on realism versus anti-realism.

2.3.11 Implication: strict or material?

Main article: Paradox of entailment

The notion of implication formalized in classical logic does not comfortably translate into natural language by meansof “if ... then ...”, due to a number of problems called the paradoxes of material implication.The first class of paradoxes involves counterfactuals, such as If the moon is made of green cheese, then 2+2=5, whichare puzzling because natural language does not support the principle of explosion. Eliminating this class of paradoxeswas the reason for C. I. Lewis's formulation of strict implication, which eventually led to more radically revisionistlogics such as relevance logic.The second class of paradoxes involves redundant premises, falsely suggesting that we know the succedent because ofthe antecedent: thus “if that man gets elected, granny will die” is materially true since granny is mortal, regardless ofthe man’s election prospects. Such sentences violate the Gricean maxim of relevance, and can be modelled by logicsthat reject the principle of monotonicity of entailment, such as relevance logic.

2.3.12 Tolerating the impossible

Main article: Paraconsistent logic

Hegel was deeply critical of any simplified notion of the Law of Non-Contradiction. It was based on Leibniz's ideathat this law of logic also requires a sufficient ground to specify from what point of view (or time) one says thatsomething cannot contradict itself. A building, for example, both moves and does not move; the ground for the firstis our solar system and for the second the earth. In Hegelian dialectic, the law of non-contradiction, of identity, itselfrelies upon difference and so is not independently assertable.Closely related to questions arising from the paradoxes of implication comes the suggestion that logic ought to tolerateinconsistency. Relevance logic and paraconsistent logic are the most important approaches here, though the concernsare different: a key consequence of classical logic and some of its rivals, such as intuitionistic logic, is that they respectthe principle of explosion, which means that the logic collapses if it is capable of deriving a contradiction. GrahamPriest, the main proponent of dialetheism, has argued for paraconsistency on the grounds that there are in fact, truecontradictions.[44]

2.3.13 Rejection of logical truth

The philosophical vein of various kinds of skepticism contains many kinds of doubt and rejection of the various baseson which logic rests, such as the idea of logical form, correct inference, or meaning, typically leading to the conclusion

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that there are no logical truths. Observe that this is opposite to the usual views in philosophical skepticism, wherelogic directs skeptical enquiry to doubt received wisdoms, as in the work of Sextus Empiricus.Friedrich Nietzsche provides a strong example of the rejection of the usual basis of logic: his radical rejection ofidealization led him to reject truth as a "... mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short... metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matteronly as metal, no longer as coins.”[45] His rejection of truth did not lead him to reject the idea of either inferenceor logic completely, but rather suggested that “logic [came] into existence in man’s head [out] of illogic, whoserealm originally must have been immense. Innumerable beings who made inferences in a way different from oursperished”.[46] Thus there is the idea that logical inference has a use as a tool for human survival, but that its existencedoes not support the existence of truth, nor does it have a reality beyond the instrumental: “Logic, too, also rests onassumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world”.[47]

This position held by Nietzsche however, has come under extreme scrutiny for several reasons. He fails to demonstratethe validity of his claims and merely asserts them rhetorically. Although, since he is criticising the established criteriaof validity, this does not undermine his position for one could argue that the demonstration of validity provided inthe name of logic was just as rhetorically based. Some philosophers, such as Jürgen Habermas, claim his position isself-refuting—and accuse Nietzsche of not even having a coherent perspective, let alone a theory of knowledge.[48]Again, it is unclear if this is a decisive critique for the criteria of coherency and consistent theory are exactly what isunder question. Georg Lukács, in his book The Destruction of Reason, asserts that, “Were we to study Nietzsche’sstatements in this area from a logico-philosophical angle, we would be confronted by a dizzy chaos of the most luridassertions, arbitrary and violently incompatible.”[49] Still, in this respect his “theory” would be a much better depictionof a confused and chaotic reality than any consistent and compatible theory. Bertrand Russell described Nietzsche’sirrational claims with “He is fond of expressing himself paradoxically and with a view to shocking conventionalreaders” in his book A History of Western Philosophy.[50]

2.4 See also• Digital electronics (also known as digital logic or logic gates)

• Fallacies

• List of logicians

• List of logic journals

• Logic puzzle

• Logic symbols

• Mathematics

• List of mathematics articles• Outline of mathematics

• Metalogic

• Outline of logic

• Philosophy

• List of philosophy topics• Outline of philosophy

• Reason

• Straight and Crooked Thinking (book)

• Table of logic symbols

• Truth

• Vector logic

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2.5 Notes and references[1] “possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative”, also related to λόγος (logos), “word, thought, idea, argument,

account, reason, or principle” (Liddell & Scott 1999; Online Etymology Dictionary 2001).

[2] Richard Henry Popkin; Avrum Stroll (1 July 1993). Philosophy Made Simple. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 238. ISBN978-0-385-42533-9. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

[3] Jacquette, D. (2002). A Companion to Philosophical Logic. Wiley Online Library. p. 2.

[4] For example, Nyaya (syllogistic recursion) dates back 1900 years.

[5] Mohists and the school of Names date back at 2200 years.

[6] Plato (1976). Buchanan, Scott, ed. The Portable Plato. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-015040-4.

[7] Aristotle (2001). "Posterior Analytics". In Mckeon, Richard. The Basic Works. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75799-6.

[8] Whitehead, Alfred North; Russell, Bertrand (1967). Principia Mathematica to *56. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-62606-4.

[9] For a more modern treatment, see Hamilton, A. G. (1980). Logic for Mathematicians. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-29291-3.

[10] T. Mossakowski, J. A. Goguen, R. Diaconescu, A. Tarlecki, “What is a Logic?", Logica Universalis 2007 Birkhauser, pp.113–133.

[11] Łukasiewicz, Jan (1957). Aristotle’s syllogistic from the standpoint of modern formal logic (2nd ed.). Oxford UniversityPress. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-19-824144-7.

[12] • Magnani, L. “Abduction, Reason, and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation”. Kluwer Academic PlenumPublishers, New York, 2001. xvii. 205 pages. Hard cover, ISBN 0-306-46514-0.

• R. Josephson, J. & G. Josephson, S. “Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology” Cambridge Uni-versity Press, New York & Cambridge (U.K.). viii. 306 pages. Hard cover (1994), ISBN 0-521-43461-0, Paperback(1996), ISBN 0-521-57545-1.

• Bunt, H. & Black, W. “Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in Computational Pragmatics” (NaturalLanguage Processing, 1.) John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2000. vi. 471 pages. Hard cover, ISBN90-272-4983-0 (Europe),

1-58619-794-2 (U.S.)

[13] Peirce, C. S.

• “On the Logic of drawing History from Ancient Documents especially from Testimonies” (1901), Collected Papersv. 7, paragraph 219.

• “PAP” ["Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmatism"], MS 293 c. 1906, New Elements of Mathematics v. 4, pp.319-320.

• A Letter to F. A. Woods (1913), Collected Papers v. 8, paragraphs 385-388.

(See under "Abduction" and "Retroduction" at Commens Dictionary of Peirce’s Terms.)

[14] Peirce, C. S. (1903), Harvard lectures on pragmatism, Collected Papers v. 5, paragraphs 188–189.

[15] Bergmann, Merrie; Moor, James; Nelson, Jack (2009). The Logic Book (Fifth ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN978-0-07-353563-0.

[16] Mendelson, Elliott (1964). “Quantification Theory: Completeness Theorems”. Introduction to Mathematical Logic. VanNostrand. ISBN 0-412-80830-7.

[17] Hofweber, T. (2004). “Logic and Ontology”. In Zalta, Edward N. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

[18] E.g., Kline (1972, p.53) wrote “A major achievement of Aristotle was the founding of the science of logic”.

[19] "Aristotle", MTU Department of Chemistry.

[20] Jonathan Lear (1986). "Aristotle and Logical Theory". Cambridge University Press. p.34. ISBN 0-521-31178-0

[21] Simo Knuuttila (1981). "Reforging the great chain of being: studies of the history of modal theories". Springer Science &Business. p.71. ISBN 90-277-1125-9

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[23] Harold Joseph Berman (1983). "Law and revolution: the formation of the Western legal tradition". Harvard UniversityPress. p.133. ISBN 0-674-51776-8

[24] The four Catuṣkoṭi logical divisions are formally very close to the four opposed propositions of the Greek tetralemma,which in turn are analogous to the four truth values of modern relevance logic Cf. Belnap (1977); Jayatilleke, K. N., (1967,The logic of four alternatives, in Philosophy East and West, University of Hawaii Press).

[25] Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti (June 1976). “Some Comparisons Between Frege’s Logic and Navya-Nyaya Logic”. Philoso-phy and Phenomenological Research (International Phenomenological Society) 36 (4): 554–563. doi:10.2307/2106873.JSTOR 2106873. This paper consists of three parts. The first part deals with Frege’s distinction between sense and ref-erence of proper names and a similar distinction in Navya-Nyaya logic. In the second part we have compared Frege’sdefinition of number to the Navya-Nyaya definition of number. In the third part we have shown how the study of theso-called 'restrictive conditions for universals’ in Navya-Nyaya logic anticipated some of the developments of modern settheory.

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[28] “History of logic: Arabic logic”. Encyclopædia Britannica.

[29] Stolyar, Abram A. (1983). Introduction to Elementary Mathematical Logic. Dover Publications. p. 3. ISBN 0-486-64561-4.

[30] Barnes, Jonathan (1995). The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. p. 27. ISBN 0-521-42294-9.

[31] Aristotle (1989). Prior Analytics. Hackett Publishing Co. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-87220-064-7.

[32] Mendelson, Elliott (1964). “Formal Number Theory: Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem”. Introduction to MathematicalLogic. Monterey, Calif.: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software. OCLC 13580200.

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[35] Goldman, Alvin I. (1986), Epistemology and Cognition, Harvard University Press, p. 293, ISBN 9780674258969, untrainedsubjects are prone to commit various sorts of fallacies and mistakes.

[36] Demetriou, A.; Efklides, A., eds. (1994), Intelligence, Mind, and Reasoning: Structure and Development, Advances inPsychology 106, Elsevier, p. 194, ISBN 9780080867601.

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[46] Nietzsche, 1882, The Gay Science.

[47] Nietzsche, 1878, Human, All Too Human

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2.7 External links• Logic at PhilPapers

• Logic at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project

• Logic entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), “Logical calculus”, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4

• An Outline for Verbal Logic

• Introductions and tutorials

• An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, by Paul Newall, aimed at beginners.• forall x: an introduction to formal logic, by P.D. Magnus, covers sentential and quantified logic.• Logic Self-Taught: A Workbook (originally prepared for on-line logic instruction).

• Nicholas Rescher. (1964). Introduction to Logic, St. Martin’s Press.

• Essays

• “Symbolic Logic” and “The Game of Logic”, Lewis Carroll, 1896.• Math & Logic: The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic and methodological ideas. In TheDictionary of the History of Ideas.

• Online Tools

• Interactive Syllogistic Machine A web based syllogistic machine for exploring fallacies, figures, terms,and modes of syllogisms.

• Reference material

• Translation Tips, by Peter Suber, for translating from English into logical notation.• Ontology and History of Logic. An Introduction with an annotated bibliography.

• Reading lists

• The London Philosophy Study Guide offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on the student’sfamiliarity with the subject:• Logic & Metaphysics• Set Theory and Further Logic• Mathematical Logic

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