Sanguineti J.J. Logic. The basic aspects

Makati City: Sinag-Tala Publishers, 1992. — 135 p.Our purpose in writing this book is to provide the reader with some basic concepts in logic as a preparation for further studies in philosophy. We have put together in one volume the subject covered in formal logic (the study of the forms of logical reasoning) and material logic (the study of the philosophical foundation of the forms of reasoning). It is our hope that the book serves its pedagogical purpose, and the reader find it a good introduction to the study of logic in the light of metaphysical principles.Introduction
Logic as a science (I)
Logic as a science (II)
The logic of concepts
Concepts and abstraction
The universality of concepts and the singularity of real beings
Language as the expression of thought
The analogical meaning of concepts
Predicables, the logical modes of the universals
Definition, division and opposition of concepts
The logic of the proposition
The proposition in general
Kinds of propositions
The logic of reasoning
General characteristic of reasoning
Analysis of reasoning: the syllogism
Induction
Fallacies
Scientific Knowledge
Nature and object of scientific knowledge
Philosophy and the particular sciences
Order of the sciences
The scientific method
The principles of scientific knowledge