Article ID: CBB050633922

La logique est-elle une science de classification? Sur une crise de la classification dans la logique au xixe siècle (2016)

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Usually, classification is said to belong to the study of logic. On what grounds? One might answer in assuming that logic essentially operates on classes, and that as such it is the general science of classifications. It is the conception that classical logic had conveyed since Aristotle and even more since Porphyrius. These habits were shaken up by 19th century science. On the one hand, empirical sciences were creating taxonomies independent of the abstract and a priori knowledge provided by logicians, up to the point that these latter rather came to borrow methods to chemistry, botanic or mineralogy. On the other hand, the development of symbolic logic renewed the understanding of logic itself: far from being a general theory of classification, it may resort to the classification of its own objects (sets, functions, symbols and so on).

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Authors & Contributors
Lara Piersanti
Ma, Minghui
Guidetti, Luca
Andrei Pop
Gaspard, Jeoffrey
Mark Simes
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Logic
Classification of knowledge
Mathematics
Symbolism; symbolic representation
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Eastern Europe
United States
Poland
Europe
Central Europe
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