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Re(dis)covering Leibniz's Diagrammatic Logic

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  • J. Martín Castro Manzano
J. Martín Castro Manzano
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i52.760

Published 2016-12-27

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Manzano, J. M. C. (2016). Re(dis)covering Leibniz’s Diagrammatic Logic. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (52), 89–116. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i52.760
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Abstract

In this paper we recover Leibniz's diagrammatic logic for syllogistic and we discover its computational and logical features by providing a formal approach to it in metalogical terms, which is something that, as far as we know, is yet to be accomplished. Thus, in this contribution we pursue, respectively, two goals, a historical and a logical one: i) to bring more attention on the algorithmic aspects of Leibniz's diagrammatic system for syllogistic, which be believe have been neglected because of a general bias against diagram-based reasoning;
and ii) to prove metalogical properties of the system in order to argue that such system is a bona fide logical system.
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