Saturday, July 17, 2010
Truth Tables or Aristotelian Logic
In the Truth Tables or Aristotelian Logic, I found Aristotelian logic to be interesting and useful. To begin with, Aristotelian Logic refers to a method that Aristotle developed long ago to help determine if a claim was valid. To determine if a claim was valid he would inspect its premises to see if the reasoning behind the claim was correct. Thus, a claim would be broke down into parts to show its claim. For example, Asian gets good grades. Good grades come from Asians. Thus, people who get bad grades are not Asians. While making a claim that can be either true or false, this method presents a mapping of how the person got that claim. In theory, the claim make sense, but from experience or knowledge we know this statement is not true. However, Aristotelian logic presents a new interesting concept of stating a general claim that can be useful to break down and convey your claims.
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I am with you on this one! I found Aristotelian logic to be way better than Truth tables! I find that truth tables are very confusing and hard to read. Lol even when I was in math I had a rally hard time with this! Aristotelian logic is a lot easier to understand and to deal with to be quite honest. And as long as I’m being honest I say that you don’t use either one! I know you don’t have much of a choice but one can dream right! Aristotelian logic is a very useful way to break down your claims! I think you hit the nail on the head!
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