Introduction to Logic

Question 1

Where does the word Logic came from?

Answer 1

Logos

Question 2

Who introduced the Logic?

Answer 2

Zeno

Question 3

When did Zeno introduced Logic?

Answer 3

300 BC

Question 4

How did Zeno introduced Logic?

Answer 4

Logike

Question 5

What is the “Science of Correct Reasoning”?

Answer 5

Logic

Question 6

consists of a system of principles that govern correct thinking

Answer 6

Science

Question 7

power to perform certain actions guided by special knowledge and executed with skill

Answer 7

Art

Question 8

This type of logic applies logical concepts to the analysis of everyday reasoning and problem-solving

Answer 8

Informal Logic

Question 9

This type of logic is precise, symbolic representation of logical concepts; Study of abstract relationships between concepts

Answer 9

Formal Logic

Question 10

What are the Four Means of Obtaining Knowledge?

Answer 10

Perception, Inference, Analogy, Verbal Testimony

Question 11

what is the contact from senses and object?

Answer 11

Perception

Question 12

what is the use of ‘implication’?

Answer 12

Inference

Question 13

what is the use of ‘comparison’?

Answer 13

Analogy

Question 14

what is the use of ‘authority’?

Answer 14

Verbal Testimony

Question 15

“need for human person to obtain knowledge

Answer 15

Nyaya Philosophy

Question 16

Nyaya Philosophy is authored by who?

Answer 16

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 17

what is the meaning of Nyaya

Answer 17

Logical Argument/Syllogism

Question 18

“what is the origin of the Universe”?

Answer 18

Pre-Aristotelian Philosophy

Question 19

when and where did Nyaya Philosophy happened?

Answer 19

5th Century BC in India

Question 20

when and where did Pre-Aristotelian Philosophy happened?

Answer 20

5th Century BC in Greece

Question 21

who are the 3 groups during Pre-Aristotelian Philosophy?

Answer 21

Eleatics, Sophists, and Megarics

Question 22

who is the founder of logic?

Answer 22

Aristotle

Question 23

it is a “tool” or “instrument”

Answer 23

Organon

Question 24

what came up in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy?

Answer 24

Epistemology

Question 25

Devised mnemonic names for valid moods canvassed in the Prior Analytics

Answer 25

Scholastics and Crusaders

Question 26

in this period, algebraic schools, logicist school, and mathematical school was established

Answer 26

Modern Logic

Question 27

The act by which the intellect grasps the essence of something

Answer 27

Simple Apprehension

Question 28

the intellect merely takes the thing in without any affirmation or denial

Answer 28

Simple

Question 29

lays hold of a thing mentally

Answer 29

Apprehension

Question 30

"a mental operation that pronounces the identity or non-identity between two ideas"

Answer 30

Judgement

Question 31

"a mental act that proceeds from the previously known truth to a new truth"

Answer 31

Reasoning