Port-Royal Logic

Port-Royal Logic, or Logique Port-Royal, is the common name of La logique, ou l'arte de penser, an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, two pupils of the Jansenist Port-Royal school.

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Antoine Arnauld - Pierre Nicole - Jansenist - Port-Royal

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Written in the vernacular, it became quite popular and was in use up to the twentieth century, introducing the reader to logic, and exhibiting strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology (Arnauld, along with Hobbes, having been one of the main philosophers whose objections were published, with replies, in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy). The Port-Royal Logic is sometimes cited as a paradigmatic example of traditional term logic.

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Hobbes - Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy - Term logic

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