Baumgarten wrote Ethica Philosophica (1740; "Philosophic Ethic"), Acroasis Logica (1761; "Discourse on Logic"), Jus Naturae (1763; "Natural Law"), Philosophia Generalis (1770; "General Philosophy"), and Praelectiones Theologicae (1773; "Lectures on Theology").
In order to place Peirce's graphic systems in the traditional well-developed discourse of logic, we introduce an intermediate stage, that is, to read off Peirce's graphs into symbolic language.
That this logical mode of communication drew its frame of discourse from the logic of the ancient Greeks was inevitable.
Just as some postcolonial novelists used myth, magic, and fable as a stylistic throwing-off of what they considered the alien supremacy of Anglo-Saxon realistic fiction, so numerous feminist novelists took to Gothic, fairy tale, and fantasy as countereffects to the "patriarchal discourse" of rationality, logic, and linear narrative.
If a quote is something like "I'll be there prepared for anything at the first hint of dawn," and you think, for any reason, that it might not be in the verbatim zone, get rid of the quotation marks and state it in indirect discourse (improving the logic while you're at it): She said she would be there at the first hint of dawn, prepared for anything.
How would we paraphrase this discourse in predicate logic?
But none of the discourses in The Logic of Life is fully fleshed out before the reader is hit with the next one in line.
Similarly, certain intuitions about reciprocal moral obligation are picking up on real facts about the logic of discourse and about generic social dynamics — on principles that were true even before humans came along and illustrated them.
German Logic, "Preliminary Discourse," §1.
Building on Prior's metaphysical intuitions, Adams [1981] sketches an alternative, strict actualist semantics for modal discourse and a corresponding logic.
