Traditional LogicContemporary Logic

The Two Approaches of Logic

Traditional Contemporary

• Focuses on the formal logic or art

of reasoning through the medium of language.

• Includes both symbolic and informal logic.

• Formalized artificial language or symbolic

calculus.• Studies the

structural patterns of reasoning.

and starts with premises that are

assumed to be true.

• Use only logical rationales to derive a

conclusion.and obey formal rules

and bivalent.

• involves the study of classical syllogism.

• Uses Christian truth and traditional views.

• Rhetorical and dialectal

• Capture the intricacies of

human statements in a formal scientific

system.• Modern views

about reality

• Both lead to a conclusion and the conclusion

built from premises.