Tag Archives: Aristotelian Logic

Logical Errors in a Logic Textbook, Alas!

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. Early on in his Socratic Logic, Peter Kreeft offers what I’ll take to be two arguments in favor of a thesis that traditional, or Aristotelian, logic is superior to modern, or symbolic or mathematical, logic, that, indeed, modern logic … Continue reading →

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Universal Propositions and “Existential Import”

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

Introduction. In a note (25, p. 171) in Christopher Shields’ quite admirable overview, Aristotle (2nd edition; London and New York: Routledge, 2014), we find the following passage, setting forth (Ibid., p. 143) the “three simple and, he [Aristotle] thinks, intuitively … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 3: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy and Ontology are “Separate”

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I devoted my August 1, 2013, post on Badiou, “Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics,” to an analysis of the following passage from Being and Event (p. 3): The initial thesis of my enterprise—on the basis of … Continue reading →

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The Physicalism of David Papineau: A First Impression

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. Following a link provided in an April 9th, 20103, post, “KCL’s David Papineau Interviewed…,” in Leiter Reports: A Philosophical Blog, I found myself reading Richard Marshall’s 3am Magazine interview of David Papineau. This was, I blush to admit, the … Continue reading →

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