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(1981) Marxism and alternatives, Dordrecht, Springer.
Making logic practical
Tom Rockmore, William J. Gavin , James G. Colbert , Thomas J Blakeley
pp. 150-164
In the American school, traditional logic was viewed as inadequate. Dewey, for example, calls for a "logic of discovery, not a logic of argumentation, proof and persuasion".1 He agrees with Bacon that learning consists in the growth of knowledge, and as such cannot be accomplished by syllogistic demonstration of what is already known. Classic logic is inherently conservative, emphasizing and falling back on the authority and intellectual achievements of the past.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-8495-0_13
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Rockmore, T. , Gavin, W. J. , Colbert, J. G. , Blakeley, T.J. (1981). Making logic practical, in Marxism and alternatives, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 150-164.