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all in the collections of sound Prophetic Sayings.)
This is the character of mathematics and its drawbacks.
2. LOGIC. Nothing in logic is relevant to religion by way of denial or
affirmation. Logic is the study of the methods of demonstration and of
forming syllogisms, of the conditions for the premises of proofs, of the
manner of combining the premises, of the conditions for sound definition
and the manner of ordering it. Knowledge comprises (a) the concept
(tasawwur), which is apprehended by definition, and (b) the assertion or
judgment (tasdiq), which is apprehended by proof. There is nothing here
which requires to be denied. Matters of this kind are actually mentioned by
the theologians and speculative thinkers in connection with the topic of
demonstrations. The philosophers differ from these only in the expressions
and technical terms they employ and in their greater elaboration of the
explanations and classifications. An example of this is their proposition, `If it
is true that all A is B, then it follows that some B is A‟, that is, `If it is true
that all men are animals, then it follows that some animals are men‟. They
express this by saying that `the universal affirmative proposition has as its
This is the character of mathematics and its drawbacks.
2. LOGIC. Nothing in logic is relevant to religion by way of denial or
affirmation. Logic is the study of the methods of demonstration and of
forming syllogisms, of the conditions for the premises of proofs, of the
manner of combining the premises, of the conditions for sound definition
and the manner of ordering it. Knowledge comprises (a) the concept
(tasawwur), which is apprehended by definition, and (b) the assertion or
judgment (tasdiq), which is apprehended by proof. There is nothing here
which requires to be denied. Matters of this kind are actually mentioned by
the theologians and speculative thinkers in connection with the topic of
demonstrations. The philosophers differ from these only in the expressions
and technical terms they employ and in their greater elaboration of the
explanations and classifications. An example of this is their proposition, `If it
is true that all A is B, then it follows that some B is A‟, that is, `If it is true
that all men are animals, then it follows that some animals are men‟. They
express this by saying that `the universal affirmative proposition has as its