Proofs of valid categorical syllogisms in one diagrammatic and two symbolic axiomatic systems
| Autor: | Rodrigues, Antonielly Garcia, Dias, Eduardo Mario |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Gottfried Leibniz embarked on a research program to prove all the Aristotelic categorical syllogisms by diagrammatic and algebraic methods. He succeeded in proving them by means of Euler diagrams, but didn't produce a manuscript with their algebraic proofs. We demonstrate how key excerpts scattered across various Leibniz's drafts on logic contained sufficient ingredients to prove them by an algebraic method -- which we call the Leibniz-Cayley (LC) system -- without having to make use of the more expressive and complex machinery of first-order quantificational logic. In addition, we prove the classic categorical syllogisms again by a relational method -- which we call the McColl-Ladd (ML) system -- employing categorical relations studied by Hugh McColl and Christine Ladd. Finally, we show the connection of ML and LC with Boolean algebra, proving that ML is a consequence of LC, and that LC is a consequence of the Boolean lattice axioms, thus establishing Leibniz's historical priority over George Boole in characterizing and applying (a sufficient fragment of) Boolean algebra to effectively tackle categorical syllogistic. Comment: 66 pages, 9 figures (some of which include subfigures), 5 tables (one of which includes 2 subtables). A cut-down version of this article, which removes the discussion on diagrammatic logic with Euler diagrams, was submitted to the "History and Philosophy of Logic" journal with a different title |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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