This is a critical examination of Antoine Arnauld's Logic or the Art of Thinking (1662), commonly known as the Port-Royal Logic. Rather than reading this work from the viewpoint of post-Fregean formal logic or the viewpoint of seventeenth-century intellectual history, I approach it with the aim of exploring its relationship to that contemporary field which may be labeled informal logic and/or argumentation theory. It turns out that the Port-Royal Logic is a precursor of this current field, or conversely, that this field may be said to be in the same tradition. © 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Finocchiaro, M. A. (1997). The Port-Royal Logic’s theory of argument. Argumentation, 11(4), 393–410. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007756105432
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