Ramism

As Ramism is called the critical teachings of Peter Ramus to Aristotelian- scholastic logic, dialectic and philosophy. A well-known representative of the Ramism example, Johannes Althusius.

Ramistische logic and dialectics

Starting from Plato, Cicero and Quintilian criticizes the Ramism Aristotelian logic and replaces it with a ajar to the rhetoric natural logic of common sense ( cf. Peter Ramus ' Aristotelicae animadversiones, 1543).

As a task of logic in the extraction of knowledge Ramus considered finding shortest paths. Important means of achieving this is not the barren mere syllogistic, but observation and experiment. Therefore, the logician must explore nature. The logic named Ramus " to conclude the art" and divided it into two sections for:

Accordingly, the ramistische dialectic also has two areas:

Conclusions and judgments ( iudicio ) are divided into:

Conclusions and evidence can rely on artificiale or inartificiale sources. He measured the study of rules of evidence to be of great importance. Therefore, he devoted in his logic of the development of such methods of proof a lot of attention, taking into account the specificity of the mirrored in his theory content. The idea expressed by him about the important role of mathematics that brings clarity in the knowledge, had great influence on Leibniz.

These critical: Jacopo Zabarella

Opposite position: Aristotelianism with representatives like John Casus, Jacobus Cheyneus, Daniel Cramer, Theophil Golius, Anthony and John Ruvius Magirus.