Can we consider the rigid formalism, specific to
symbolic logic, a way of defense against the emotional "chaos" and the drive?
As suggested above, one source was formal
symbolic logic, such as found in the work of the philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925).
A first edition copy of Carroll's book,
Symbolic Logic, Part 1, Elementary, which he signed and gave to Edith, sold for pounds 4,080.
Symbolic logic, Boole believed, would strip the ambiguities and inconsistencies present in religious dialogue and point toward a "divine plane where all knowledge converged into God's Truth" (105).
These include major advances in mathematics and
symbolic logic, the development of evolutionary theory, Maxwell's field theory, relativity theory and quantum theory.
Piotr Balcerowicz, in "Implications of the Buddhist-Jaina Dispute over the Fallacious Example in [Dharmakrrtrsl Nyaya-Bindu and [Siddharsigani's] Nyayavalara-Vivrti," demonstrates at least three things: first, that in his discussion of the "fallacious example," the Jaina Siddharsigani unquestionably drew upon the work of the Buddhist Dharmaklrti, at times adopting identical wording; second, that Siddharsigani made an important and streamlining philosophical modification to the discussion by removing the "illustrative example" as an integral component, of the proof; and third, that because the Indian philosophers, unlike their Greek counterparts, did not use
symbolic logic, we are better able to reconstruct historical influences and determine personal biases among the philosophers.
Many of the early chapters in this volume are efforts to situate its complex identity, especially in relationship to the more traditional field of formal or
symbolic logic. Finocchiaro introduces informal logic as a "theory of reasoning" that attempts "to formulate, to test, to clarify, and to systematize concepts and principles for the interpretation, the evaluation, and the sound practice of reasoning" (22).
Consider, for example, the sentence (chosen more or less at random) 'Blake's
symbolic logic is performative, enjoining a collaborative readership' (p.
Robertson); (16) Integrating and Enabling Skills Development in a
Symbolic Logic Class (Carl J.