In addition, Metaphysics Γ is a logical treatise that discusses the principle of non-contradiction, and some further logical insights are found scattered throughout Aristotle's other works, such as the Poetics, Rhetoric, De Anima, Metaphysics Δ and Θ, and some of the biological works.
A major early representative of this trend is 'Umar ibn Sahlân as-Sâwî (d. 1148) who began, in his Logical Insights for Nasîraddîn, to rework Avicenna's modal syllogistic.[13] It was to be his students and their students, however, who would go on to make the final changes to Avicennan logic that characterized the subject that came to be taught in the madrasa.
Although other and subsequent forms of analysis, such as linguistic analysis, were less wedded to systems of formal logic, the central insight motivating logical analysis remained.
Bourdaloue always wrote out his sermons, which were careful logical expositions with insight into human nature.
There is, therefore, a tension in all religions between mystical intuition and logical articulation, between insight and dialogue.
In philosophy, just as in mathematics, Russell believed that it was by applying logical machinery and insights that advances in analysis would be made.
They were "a chance to asses how logical he was, an insight into his temperament.
Extending Wittgenstein's insight about logical truths to mathematical ones as well, the Circle considered both to be tautological.
Husserl's frequent reliance upon 'apodictic self-evidence' both as a weapon against the species relativist and as the source of insight into logical truths is itself beset with difficulties.
