interpretatione_, having distinguished the enunciation, or
proposition, from other sentences as that in which there is truth or
falsity, he relegated the rest to rhetoric or poetry, and founded the
logic of the proposition, in which, however, he retained the
grammatical analysis into noun and verb. In the _Analytics_ he took
the final step of originating the logical analysis of the proposition
as premise into subject and predicate as terms mediated by the copula,
and analysed the syllogism into these elements. Thus did he become the
founder of the logical but linguistic analysis of reasoning as
discourse ([Greek: ho exô logos]) into propositions and terms.
Nevertheless, the deeper question remained, what is the logical but
mental analysis of reasoning itself ([Greek: ho esô logos]) into its
mental premises and conclusion?
Aristotle thus was the founder of logic as a science. But he laid too
much stress on reasoning as syllogism or deduction, and on deductive
science; and he laid too much stress on the linguistic analysis of
rational discourse into proposition and terms. These two defects remain
ingrained in technical logic to this day. But in the course of the
development of the science, logicians have endeavoured to correct those
defects, and have diverged into two schools. Some have devoted
themselves to induction from sense and experience and widened logic till
it has become a general science of inference and scientific method.
Others have devoted themselves to the mental analysis of reasoning, and
have narrowed logic into a science of conception, judgment and
reasoning. The former belong to the school of empirical logic, the
latter to the school of conceptual and formal logic. Both have started
from points which Aristotle indicated without developing them. But we
shall find that his true descendants are the empirical logicians.
Aristotle was the first of the empiricists. He consistently maintained
that sense is knowledge of particulars and the origin of scientific
knowledge of universals. In his view, sense is a congenital form of
judgment ([Greek: dynamis symphytos kritikê], _Post. An._ ii. 19); a
sensation of each of the five senses is always true of its proper
object; without sense there is no science; sense is the origin of
induction, which is the origin of deduction and science. The _Analytics_
end (_Post. An._ ii. 19) with a detailed system of empiricism, according
to which sense is the primary knowledge of particulars, memory is the
retention of a sensation, experience is the sum of many memories,
induction infers universals, and intelligence is the true apprehension
of the universal principles of science, which is rational, deductive,
demonstrative, from empirical principles.
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