How Logic Began, How Important is Aristotle, & What are the major contribution of Aristotle?
“Logic” is the formulation of the rules the mind must use because that’s the way the mind works. Aristotle figured out all 256 categorical syllogisms, and none have been added since. The mind in incapable of creating any more, but depending on how each is used it may go by a different name. “Modus ponens” (If P, then Q. P. Therefore, Q.) for example is sometimes called ‘affirming the antecedent’ or the ‘law of detachment’. The human mind begins working with logic the moment of birth, because it is logic that determines what things “are” and “how” they can be what they are. “As far as can be ascertained, an infant’s sensory experience is an undifferentiated chaos. Discriminated awareness begins on the level of percepts.” http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/percep… A percept is inductive logic, created from abstractions. Inductions are things such as “blanket=warmth” or “nipple=happy tummy”. But a child has no “
