Timeline for How did lay people understand logic in the Greco-Roman world?
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| Jan 16, 2015 at 0:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/555885387743109121 | ||
| Dec 12, 2014 at 0:46 | comment | added | Oldcat | Why would you link rhetoric and logic? Often these are anti-correlated. | |
| S Dec 11, 2014 at 22:22 | history | suggested | senshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2014 at 7:08 | answer | added | Razie Mah | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 1, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | Jeroen K | What kind of logic are you interested in? Economical, practical solutions, philosophical,... | |
| May 1, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Oldcat | How do modern day people understand logic? Not well at all. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 12:59 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2014 at 11:15 | comment | added | MCW♦ | I'm not sure what "practical logic" has to do with "rhetoric". My understanding of Greco-Roman Rhetoric is that it emphasized presentation, performance, and adherence to a common body of belief and a relatively small body of source material; this has nothing to do with logic. I think that including practical logic would have undermined the quality of rhetoric. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 11:14 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Title is now a question; Question is a question, not a request for references.
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| May 1, 2014 at 3:01 | history | migrated | from philosophy.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 30, 2014 at 20:09 | comment | added | stoicfury | I think this question is fine. We allow reference requests and it's about logic (even if only the understand of logic) which is acceptable. That said, I doubt any ancient works exist, although modern ones probably do. The question does not specify a time period, and in my understanding the term "Greco-Roman world" refers to a region not a time period, so there are almost certainly modern works that describe how people of that region understand logic as compared to other regions of the world. | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 17:14 | comment | added | Lukas | One way to go would be to look into ancient authors and what they wrote about their contemporaries. I am pretty sure there are passages of Plato where he speaks in anger about the stupidity of his fellow athenians, and maybe even includes examples. | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 8:59 | answer | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 5:33 | comment | added | Lucas | It's definitely something I'd be interested in knowing about, but I think it's a difficult thing to answer. Most of recorded history is provided by the most educated people. I'm not saying an answer is impossible, but it's a tricky one. Have you considered history.SE? | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 5:11 | comment | added | Hunan Rostomyan | Interesting question, but I think: off-topic. It doesn't seem to belong to the "history of philosophy", but to the history of the public understanding of philosophy/mathematics or the history of the appreciation of philosophy/mathematics, or some such historical (or sociological?) field. I suspect many philosophers/mathematicians will have an answer to the question, but not by virtue of being philosophers/mathematicians, but by virtue of knowing some facts about the history of their discipline. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 20:42 | history | asked | Lew Worthington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |