Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

History of logic

The history of logic deals with the study of the development of the science of valid inference (logic). Formal logics developed in ancient times in India, China, and Greece.

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  1. Logic

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic, the study of reasoning and argument.

    21 October 2010

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    Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Peter Millican, Rosanna Keefe

     
  2. Rhetoric

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Rhetoric, the art of speaking which is an expression of inner virtue and also fundamental to ideas about democracy.

    28 October 2004

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    Featuring: Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy, Ceri Sullivan