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Understanding Logic and Correct Thinking

The document defines logic as the science of correct thinking and reasoning. It discusses logic as involving orderly, consistent thinking that moves from one related thought to the next. Correct thinking follows valid rules and agrees with reality. Logic systematizes and draws principles for correct thinking. As a science, logic investigates its subject matter to attain sure, systematized knowledge through causes.

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Understanding Logic and Correct Thinking

The document defines logic as the science of correct thinking and reasoning. It discusses logic as involving orderly, consistent thinking that moves from one related thought to the next. Correct thinking follows valid rules and agrees with reality. Logic systematizes and draws principles for correct thinking. As a science, logic investigates its subject matter to attain sure, systematized knowledge through causes.

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THE MEANING OF

LOGIC
By: Christine Gay H. Fondevilla, Midwifery I
The Meaning of Logic

1.1 The Definition of Logic


1.2 Meaning of Correct Thinking
1.3 Correct Thinking and Logic
1.4 Logic as Science
1.5 Object of a Science
Definition Of Logic

 - A proper or reasonable way of thinking about or understanding


something. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
 - The science that studies the formal processes used in thinking or
reasoning. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

Logical- relevant, orderly, and consistent.

 -reasonable thinking
Illogical- irrelevance, to disorder and inconsistency.

 Logic or dialectics is the practical philosophy of correct thinking.


Meaning of Correct Thinking

 Thinking is an act of the mind or mental operation that involves


 1. the working out of the previous thought,
 2. to attain related truth.
 Correct Thinking is the movement of the mind from one thought to another thought
necessarily connected with the previous thought.
 We may express an inference as follows:
 Every animal has senses.
 An oryx is an animal.
 An oryx has senses.
Correct Thinking And Logic

 Correctness implies right order, consistency, reasonable procedure, necessary


relationship and valid inference. Thinking must conform to certain valid rules and laws.
 Birds fly.
 The eagle is a bird.
 The eagle flies.
 Logical truth is the conformity or agreement of the mind with reality.
 Birds fly.
 The X is a bird.
 The X flies.
Logic As Science

• Science is knowledge, but not all knowledge is science. In a science our knowledge must be
• 1. sure
• 2. thru causes
• 3. systemized.
• Science is sure systematized knowledge through causes.
• Logic is a science. It investigates and systematizes data, draws and demonstrates principles,
explains and organizes rules and laws for correct thinking.
Objects Of A Science

 A faculty is any natural or specialized power for acting of an organism.


 Operation is the activity or act of a thing through a faculty.
 The material object of a science are the things that science deals with.
 The formal object of a science is the special or immediate viewpoint from which a
thing is considered.
 A formal medium is the light or vehicle by which a faculty attains its formal object.
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