Port-Royal logic

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The Logic of Port-Royal is the common name of the book La logique, ou l'art de penser , an important work on logic . It was first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole . The two were two prominent representatives of Jansenism from the circle around Port-Royal . Even Blaise Pascal to the text have contributed parts. The grammar of Port-Royal (1660) preceded the book .

The Port-Royal Logic is written in the vernacular, popular in England and France, and as a logic textbook was used until the 20th century. It contains strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology ; Arnauld was one of the philosophers who criticized Descartes ' Meditationes de prima philosophia .

The book is considered a paradigmatic example of traditional conceptual logic .

In the logical-semantic propaedeutics of Tugendhat and Wolf , Port-Royal's logic is characterized as a work which, according to the older logic established by Aristotle , introduces the second, modern phase of logic, which is characterized by " a predominance of epistemological and psychological questions " is. It is followed by the third phase of logic, which is introduced by Frege's conceptual writing.

The philosopher Louis Marin studied the book. Michel Foucault saw it as one of the foundations of épistémè in the age of representation.

In Germany the book was received by Leibniz , but was then forgotten.

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  1. ↑ Ernst Tugendhat , Ursula Wolf : Logical-semantic propaedeutics . Reclam, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 978-3-15-008206-5 , pp. 7 .
  2. ↑ Louis Marin : La Critique du discours . Éditions de Minuit, 1975, ISBN 978-3-518-42008-9 .
  3. ↑ Michel Foucault : The order of things . Suhrkamp, ​​2003, ISBN 978-3-518-06734-5 .