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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Is semiotics an "informal logic"?
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Date: 25 Nov 91 21:09:37 GMT
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In article <NLe6aB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson) writes:
>It has always seemed to me that Aristotle's analytics, which became
>"logic" for the modern world, was an attempt to formalize some
>relatively minor parts of the dialectical movement of thought.

But you ignore everything that's happened in logic (and related
fields) since, it seems, Venn.  So of course you think it's just
some minor advance on a small part of Aristitle.


