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LESSON 1 · Reason Like a Philosopher

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Who systematically formalized deductive logic in ancient Greece?

Aristotle, around 350 BCE

Aristotle's Prior Analytics laid out the syllogism and became the foundation of classical deductive logic for centuries. Later symbolic logic changed the field, but Aristotle's system was the landmark ancient formalization.

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