Deductive Reasoning in Human Thinking: Some Remarks About Boethius’s Logical Project
摘要
According to recent historiography, Boethius was not a great logician. This article is an attempt to understand Boethius’ logic within his cognitive theory of human deductive reasoning, where belief and assent play a significant role. The aim is to show that Boethius attempts to integrate the logic of necessary arguments with the logic of plausible arguments through the integration and extension of the rules of inference.