Modern Türk Düşüncesinde Mantık Çalışmaları

Abstract

Studies on Logic in Modern Turkish Thought. Logical studies in modern Turkish thought can he divided into three groups: 1. Traditional categorical logic which depends upon Aristotelian logic and is restricted to Farahi's and Avicenna' s logical investigations. Logic is not a formal system in the İslamic thought, and therefore, it had heen regarded as an instrument; yet Avicenııa's logical attempts are accepted as a formal system. 2. Logical studies in the second group consist of traditional categorical logic and modern logic. During this attitude methodology had hecomea very important suhject in logical investigations. This approach influenced logical studies in Turkish thought. In Western philosophy, 1600 AD there had heen a resurgence of interest in logical and mathematical inquiry; Turkish thought however was unaware of the movements took place in Western philosophy towards the end of the Eighteenth Century. 3. In the third group, logical studies were restricted only to modern logical prohlems. Therefore traditional logic was given very little place in this approach, hut mathematical logic, symholic logic, transcendental logic and formal logic were the main suhjects.