Timeline Of Logic Essay

The Historical Timeline of Logic and Logicians

Aristotle (383-321 BC)

Aristotle is often regarded as the father of Philosophy. Aristotle published works on biology, logic, metaphysics, psychology, meteorology, politics, literary criticism, poetry, drama, and ethics. Aristotle’s contribution to medicine were immense. In his work “The Organon” which is translated to “The Instrument” are the logical treaties of implying formal logic. Aristotle’s work on logic revolves around the notation on deductive logic, an example would be his use of syllogisms. His works on logic include; inductive and deductive reasoning, Premises: The structure of assertion, and other examples of informal logic.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)

Leibniz is known among philosophers for his wide range of thought about fundamental philosophical ideas and principles, including truth, necessary and contingent truths, possible worlds, the principle of sufficient, the principle of pre-established harmony, and the principle of non-contradiction. Leibniz had a lifelong interest in and pursuit of the idea that the principles of reasoning could be reduced to a formal symbolic system based on the algebra or calculus of thought where controversy would be settled by calculations.

Gottlieb Frege (1848-1925)

Gottlieb invented modern quantificational logic, and created the first fully axiomatic system for logic, which was complete in its treatment of propositional and first-order logic, and also represented the first treatment of higher-order logic. In the philosophy of mathematics, he was one of the most vital contributor of logicism, the thesis that mathematical truths are logical truths, and presented influential criticisms of rival views such as psychologism and formalism.

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