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Descartes's critique of the syllogistic
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dc.contributor.author | Xavier Douglas, Alexander | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-30T23:50:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-30T23:50:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-10 | |
dc.identifier | 251028393 | |
dc.identifier | 2cd29c6e-2f20-433a-b471-01a278c147fd | |
dc.identifier | 85045764046 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Xavier Douglas , A 2017 , ' Descartes's critique of the syllogistic ' , History of Philosophy Quarterly , vol. 34 , no. 4 . < http://hpq.press.uillinois.edu/34/4/douglas.html > | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0740-0675 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-9486-8991/work/69029478 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/16114 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article presents a novel reading of Descartes’s critique of the traditional syllogistic. The reading differs from those previously presented by scholars who regard Descartes’s critique as a version of a well-known argument: that syllogisms are circular or non-ampliative and thus trivial. It is argued that Descartes did not see syllogisms as defective in themselves. For him the problem was rather that anyone considering a valid and informative syllogism must already know, by an intuition wholly independent of the syllogism, that the conclusion follows from the premises. Moreover, without such an intuition the syllogistic on its own is incapable of determining whether the consequence truly holds. Thus the syllogistic is useless unless accompanied by an intuition that renders it otiose. This reading of Descartes’s view is supported and explained by examples drawn from Descartes’s writing and from the Port-Royal Logic—one of the first attempts to develop a logical system on Cartesian principles. | |
dc.format.extent | 694157 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | History of Philosophy Quarterly | en |
dc.subject | Descartes | en |
dc.subject | Syllogistic | en |
dc.subject | Logic | en |
dc.subject | Port-Royal Logic | en |
dc.subject | BC Logic | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.title | Descartes's critique of the syllogistic | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews.Philosophy | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2018-10-01 | |
dc.identifier.url | http://hpq.press.uillinois.edu/34/4/douglas.html | en |
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