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"Logic and 17th Century Scientific Thought"

23-24 April 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Logic and 17th-century Scientific Thought

Amsterdam, 23-24 April 2009

Logic was often seen in the seventeenth century as a relic of scholastic 
teaching in the universities, and as associated with useless wrangling and 
disputation. But when John Wallis presented his English Treatise of Logick 
to the Royal Society in 1685, he emphasized that logic formed the base of 
all rational discourse and thus had a positive role to play in the context 
of modern scientific learning.

For more information see: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Wallis/