Socratic Logic - Introduction

Socratic Method

The following are the notes I have taken from Peter Kreeft's wonderful Socratic Logic textbook. I highly recommend you buy it. This is a book which deals with classical logic (as opposed to modern symbolic logic.) It is easily the best overall book on logic I have ever read and one of the few I have that are worth making notes from. I even have a small duotang with these notes in it I can carry around and reference on a regular basis.

A. Start with a question.

B. Give relevant examples of X. (eg. justice or piety)

C. Make an inductive generalization. (eg. justice is in the interest of the weaker rather than the stronger)

D. Understanding the necessity of the universal principle.

E. Applying the universal principle to particular instances through deduction.