Aristotelian Logic

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Aristotle was one of the foremost thinkers of the classical world, and his approach to logic and thinking is still in use today. This page picks out from other pages on argumentation and logic those that have particular import for Aristotle.

• Three ways to persuade: logos, pathos and ethos.
• Aristotle's 13 fallacies: There are more now, but Aristotle set out the basics.
• Aristotle's Ethics: Values from the classical world.

Aristotelian logic is described in his books Prior Analytics and De Interpretatione. His collected works on the subject are known as the Organon.

See also

Argument