Port-Royal Logic

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Port-Royal Logic is a 17th-century treatise on logic and philosophy, rooted in Cartesian thought and influential in the development of modern logic and epistemology.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf early modern work on logic
logic textbook
philosophical treatise
associatedInstitution Port-Royal-des-Champs
associatedPhilosophicalMovement Cartesianism
Jansenism
associatedReligiousCommunity Port-Royal Abbey
concerns mental representation
method
propositions
reasoning
signification of words
theory of ideas
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublicationYear 1662
genre scholarly work
hasAlternativeName Port-Royal Logic
surface form: "La Logique de Port-Royal"

Port-Royal Logic
hasAuthor Antoine Arnauld
Pierre Nicole
hasKeyConcept distinction between ideas, words, and things
idea as the immediate object of thought
logic as art of thinking
rules for correct reasoning
hasTitle Port-Royal Logic
surface form: "La Logique ou l’art de penser"
historicalPeriod early modern philosophy
influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
John Locke
logical theory of ideas
modern epistemology
modern logic
philosophy of language
influencedBy Aristotelian logic
René Descartes
Scholastic logic
language French
mainSubject epistemology
logic
philosophy of language
notableFor analysis of ideas, words, and things
clear and systematic exposition of logic
psychologistic theory of logic
partlyBasedOn René Descartes’ philosophy
philosophicalOrientation Cartesian epistemology
rationalism
publicationCentury 17th century
structure four-part treatise
usedIn early modern logic teaching
education in France

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Port-Royal Logic hasAlternativeName Port-Royal Logic
this entity surface form: "La Logique de Port-Royal"
Port-Royal Logic hasAlternativeName Port-Royal Logic
Port-Royal Logic hasTitle Port-Royal Logic
this entity surface form: "La Logique ou l’art de penser"
Antoine Arnauld influenced Port-Royal Logic
this entity surface form: "Port-Royal logic tradition"
Antoine Arnauld knownFor Port-Royal Logic
Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal knownFor Port-Royal Logic
this entity surface form: "Logique de Port-Royal"
this entity surface form: "La Logique ou l’art de penser"
Port-Royal Grammar relatedWork Port-Royal Logic