Artis Logicae

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Artis Logicae (The Art of Logic) is a Latin textbook on logic written by John Milton and published in 1672. It is a redaction of the methods of Petrus Ramus, a 16th-century French philosopher and logician. Ramus's logic, which emphasized logic as a method of disputation, was influential in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Milton's textbook reflects Ramus's approach, which countered traditional Aristotelian logic by reorganizing the arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic.123

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Artis Logicae (1672; “Art of Logic”) was composed in Latin, perhaps to gain the attention also of a Continental audience. It is a textbook derived from the logic of Petrus Ramus, a 16th-century French scholar whose work reflected the impact of Renaissance humanism on the…
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Artis Logicae (1672; “Art of Logic”) was composed in Latin, perhaps to gain the attention also of a Continental audience. It is a textbook derived from the logic of Petrus Ramus, a 16th-century French scholar whose work reflected the impact of Renaissance humanism on the…
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