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Aristotelian Logic for Engineers

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Beacon Salon # 5

The legendary Greek philosopher Aristotle observed that the validity of an argument can be determined by its structure instead of its content. His classic example was the ‘syllogism’: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. Given the structure of this argument, if the premises are true then the conclusion is necessarily also true. Aristotle’s logic became a state of the art tool in philosophy and the sciences for over two thousand years. Equally influential is his survey of misleading arguments – fortunately for us in the 21st century, these are now expressed in the form of captioned images which we review in this talk.

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