Scholastinė logika Lietuvoje: pradžios klausimas ir metodas
Scholastic Logic in Lithuania: The Question of Beginning and Applied Method

Summary/Abstract: The object of this article is scholastic logic in Lithuania. The author of the article concentrates on its historical beginning. It also describes the studied problems and teaching method applied in this logic. The article concludes that the beginning of scholastic logic in Lithuania should be dated back to 1507. In that year Vilnius’ Dominican monastery founded a school, in which a course of scholastic logic was delivered. Meanwhile, the philosophical and logical education of the laity in Lithuania was initiated by Jesuit Order, to which we should also be grateful for the development of scholastic logic. The article also concludes that scholastic Logic in Lithuania was an inseparable part of European scholasticism. In all scholastic Logic dealt basically with the same problems as well as applied the same method. The main features of the mentioned method are: authoritarianism, indifference to the facts of reality and excessive attention to details. On the other hand, this method is characterized by probabilism as well as by five-step argument technique that resulted in the scientific fairness of the researcher.

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