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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Aristotle

Why Iceland’s new draft constitution was not written by crowdsourcing and why this is a good thing, too

Iceland surprised the world when it announced that it will include in the draft of its new constitution suggestions made by the citizenry via social media. A website and a special Facebook page were used as main means for collecting public input.  The…

A term a day: Aristotle’s Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

The Syllogistic “Aristotle’s most famous achievement as logician is his theory of inference, traditionally called the syllogistic (though not by Aristotle). That theory is in fact the theory of inferences of a very specific sort: inferences with two premises, each of which…