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Article: Logic
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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LOGIC
LOGIC.
Recent research on the seemingly staid subject of logic has revealed not only that certain topics in logic explained how inductive reasoning came about, but also that logic itself learned to create its own history in which logic arose from simple beginnings, but over time developed ever better ways of thinking, eventually becoming a progressive force in the history of thought. Furthermore, by the eighteenth century, the history of logic served as the structure for the history of philosophy, as well as an encyclopedia of knowledge known as
historia literaria.
Although the importance of inductive reasoning to natural philosophy has been acknowledged, other research has ...