Mikhail Ivanovich Karinsky

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Mikhail Ivanovich Karinski ( Russian Михаил Иванович Каринский ; born November 4 . Jul / 16th November  1840 greg. In Moscow , † July 20 . Jul / 2 August  1917 . Greg ) was a Russian logician and philosopher.

Mikhail Ivanovich Karinsky

Life

Karinski studied at the Moscow Spiritual Academy until 1862 . During his stay in Germany (1871–72) he visited a. a. the lectures by Hermann Lotze and Eduard Zeller . In 1880 he defended his doctoral thesis Classification of Inferences at the University of Saint Petersburg .

He taught philosophy and logic at the Department of Metaphysics at the Petersburg Spiritual Academy. From 1869 to 1884 he gave lectures on philosophy. From 1884 to 1885 he gave logic lectures as part of the Bestuschew courses (courses for higher education for women) in St. Petersburg. After his teaching activities, he was mainly active in research.

Karinski dealt critically with the epistemological theses of Immanuel Kant and dealt with the techniques of logical inference in the field of inductive logic , where he discovered a new syllogism : complete induction with a compound, disjunctive predicate . He explained the rules according to which the closing takes place in this derivation. In the years 1884–85 he published his work, logic .

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