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Aspects of Modern Logic (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970)
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Aspects of Modern Logic (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970)
Series: Synthese Library, 32
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It is common to consider an area of science as a system of real or
sup posed truths which not only continuously extends itself, but
also needs periodical revision and therefore tests the inventive
capacity of each generation of scholars anew. It sounds highly
implausible that a science at one time would be completed, that at
that point within its scope there would be no problems left to
solve. Indeed, the solution of a scientific problem inevitably
raises new questions, so that our eagerness for knowledge will
never find lasting satisfaction. Nevertheless there is one science
which seems to form an exception to this rule, formal logic, the
theory of rigorous argumentation. It seems to have reached the
ideal endpoint of every scientific aspiration already very shortly
after its inception; using the work of some predecessors,
Aristotle, or so it is at least assumed by many, has brought this
branch of science once and for all to a conclusion. Of course this
doesn't sound that implausible. We apparently know what rigorous
argumentation is; otherwise various sciences, in particular pure
mathematics, would be completely impossible. And if we know what
rigorous argumentation is, then it cannot be difficult to trace
once and for all the rules which govern it. The unique subject of
formal logic would therefore entail that this science, in variance
with the rule which holds for all other sciences, has been able to
reach completion at a certain point in history."
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