Open AccessFormal logic and natural ways of reasoning
Author(s) -
Roman Tuziak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia philosophica wratislaviensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1895-8001
DOI - 10.19195/1895-8001.16.2.6
Subject(s) - philosophy of logic , theory , autoepistemic logic , natural (archaeology) , predicate logic , dynamic logic (digital electronics) , epistemology , computational logic , cognitive science , mathematical logic , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , psychology , multimodal logic , philosophy , description logic , algorithm , programming language , physics , archaeology , transistor , quantum mechanics , voltage , history
In the paper I ask the question about the relation between formal logic and the natural logic of human mind. By a natural logic I mean the ways of thinking of a person that is intelligent but untrained in formal logic. As it turns out that the laws, rules or properties of formal logic in some cases diverge from the natural ways of reasoning, I explain the causes of this divergence. Since the majority of research in this area has been carried out from the standpoint of psychology, as a logician I suggest a slight change of the angle from which we look at the problem. I argue that certain narrowing of an interdisciplinary research would be helpful in getting a better picture of natural logic, and might provide a new stimulus for formal investigations.