The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to logic:
Logic is the formal science of using reason and is considered a branch of both philosophy and mathematics. Logic investigates and classifies the structure of statements and arguments, both through the study of formal systems of inference and through the study of arguments in natural language. The scope of logic can therefore be very large, ranging from core topics such as the study of fallacies and paradoxes, to specialized analyses of reasoning such as probability, correct reasoning, and arguments involving causality. One of the aims of logic is to identify the correct (or valid) and incorrect (or fallacious) inferences. Logicians study the criteria for the evaluation of arguments.
Analytic-synthetic distinction
Antinomy
A priori and a posteriori
Definition
Description
Entailment
Identity (philosophy)
Inference
Logical form
Logical implication
Logical truth
Logical consequence
Name
Necessity
Material conditional
Meaning (linguistic)
Meaning (non-linguistic)
Paradox (list)
Possible world
Presupposition
Probability
Quantification
Reason
Reasoning
Reference
Semantics
Strict conditional
Syntax (logic)
Truth
Truth value
Validity
Philosophical logic –
Informal logic – Critical thinking – Argumentation theory –
Argument –
Argument map –
Accuracy and precision –
Ad hoc hypothesis –
Ambiguity –
Analysis –
Attacking Faulty Reasoning –
Belief –
Belief bias –
Bias –
Cogency –
Cognitive bias –
Confirmation bias –
Credibility –
Critical pedagogy –
Critical reading –
Decidophobia –
Decision making –
Dispositional and occurrent belief –
Emotional reasoning –
Evidence –
Expert –
Explanation –
Explanatory power –
Fact –
Fallacy –
Higher-order thinking –
Inquiry –
Interpretive discussion –
Narrative logic –
Occam's razor –
Opinion –
Practical syllogism –
Precision questioning –
Propaganda –
Propaganda techniques –
Prudence –
Pseudophilosophy –
Reasoning –
Relevance –
Rhetoric –
Rigour –
Socratic questioning –
Source credibility –
Source criticism –
Theory of justification –
Topical logic –
Vagueness –
Anti-psychologism
Conceptualism
Constructivism
Conventionalism
Counterpart theory
Deflationary theory of truth
Dialetheism
Fictionalism
Formalism (philosophy)
Game theory
Illuminationist philosophy
Logical atomism
Logical holism
Logicism
Modal fictionalism
Nominalism
Object theory
Polylogism
Pragmatism
Preintuitionism
Proof theory
Psychologism
Ramism
Semantic theory of truth
Sophism
Trivialism
Ultrafinitism
Fallacy (list) – incorrect argumentation in reasoning resulting in a misconception or presumption. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority). Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure any logical argument. Fallacies can be used to win arguments regardless of the merits. There are dozens of types of fallacies.
Formal logic – Mathematical logic, symbolic logic and formal logic are largely, if not completely synonymous. The essential feature of this field is the use of formal languages to express the ideas whose logical validity is being studied.
List of mathematical logic topics
Logical variables
Propositional variable
Predicate variable
Literal
Metavariable
Logical constants
Logical connective
Quantifier
Identity
Brackets
Logical connectives
Logical connective –
Converse implication –
Converse nonimplication –
Exclusive or –
Logical NOR –
Logical biconditional –
Logical conjunction –
Logical disjunction –
Material implication –
Material nonimplication –
Negation –
Sheffer stroke –
Atomic formula
Open sentence
Analytic proposition
Axiom
Atomic sentence
Clause (logic)
Contingent proposition
Contradiction
Logical truth
Propositional formula
Rule of inference
Sentence (mathematical logic)
Sequent
Statement (logic)
Tautology
Theorem
Rules of inference
Rule of inference (list)
Biconditional elimination
Biconditional introduction
Case analysis
Commutativity of conjunction
Conjunction introduction
Constructive dilemma
Contraposition (traditional logic)
Conversion (logic)
De Morgan's laws
Destructive dilemma
Disjunction elimination
Disjunction introduction
Disjunctive syllogism
Double negative elimination
Generalization (logic)
Hypothetical syllogism
Law of excluded middle
Law of identity
Modus ponendo tollens
Modus ponens
Modus tollens
Obversion
Principle of contradiction
Resolution (logic)
Simplification
Transposition (logic)
Formal proof
List of first-order theories
Symbol
Formula
Formal system
Theorem
Formal proof
Theory
Metalinguistic variable
Deductive system
Metatheorem
Metatheory
Interpretation
Absorption law
Clause (logic)
Deductive closure
Entailment
Formation rule
Functional completeness
Intermediate logic
Literal (mathematical logic)
Logical connective
Logical consequence
Negation normal form
Open sentence
Propositional calculus
Propositional formula
Propositional variable
Rule of inference
Strict conditional
Substitution instance
Truth table
Zeroth-order logic
Boolean algebra (list)
Boolean logic
Boolean algebra (structure)
Boolean algebras canonically defined
Introduction to Boolean algebra
Complete Boolean algebra
Free Boolean algebra
Monadic Boolean algebra
Residuated Boolean algebra
Two-element Boolean algebra
Modal algebra
Derivative algebra (abstract algebra)
Relation algebra
Absorption law
Laws of Form
De Morgan's laws
Algebraic normal form
Canonical form (Boolean algebra)
Boolean conjunctive query
Boolean-valued model
Boolean domain
Boolean expression
Boolean ring
Boolean function
Boolean-valued function
Parity function
Symmetric Boolean function
Conditioned disjunction
Field of sets
Functional completeness
Implicant
Logic alphabet
Logic redundancy
Logical connective
Logical matrix
Minimal negation operator
Product term
True quantified Boolean formula
Truth table
Atomic formula
Atomic sentence
Domain of discourse
Empty domain
Extension (predicate logic)
First-order logic
First-order predicate
Formation rule
Free variables and bound variables
Generalization (logic)
Monadic predicate calculus
Predicate (mathematical logic)
Predicate logic
Predicate variable
Quantification
Second-order predicate
Sentence (mathematical logic)
Universal instantiation
(ε, δ)-definition of limit
Finitary relation
Antisymmetric relation
Asymmetric relation
Bijection
Bijection, injection and surjection
Binary relation
Composition of relations
Concurrent relation
Congruence relation
Coreflexive relation
Covering relation
Cyclic order
Dense relation
Dependence relation
Dependency relation
Directed set
Equivalence relation
Euclidean relation
Homogeneous relation
Idempotence
Intransitivity
Inverse relation
Involutive relation
Partial equivalence relation
Partial function
Partially ordered set
Preorder
Prewellordering
Propositional function
Quasitransitive relation
Reflexive relation
Surjective function
Symmetric relation
Ternary relation
Total relation
Transitive relation
Trichotomy (mathematics)
Well-founded relation
Mathematical logic –
Set theory (list) –
Aleph null
Bijection, injection and surjection
Binary set
Cantor's diagonal argument
Cantor's first uncountability proof
Cantor's theorem
Cardinality of the continuum
Cardinal number
Codomain
Complement (set theory)
Continuum hypothesis
Countable set
Decidable set
Denumerable set
Disjoint sets
Disjoint union
Domain of a function
Effective enumeration
Element (mathematics)
Empty function
Empty set
Enumeration
Extensionality
Finite set
Function (mathematics)
Function composition
Generalized continuum hypothesis
Index set
Infinite set
Intension
Intersection (set theory)
Inverse function
Löwenheim–Skolem theorem
Map (mathematics)
Multiset
Naïve set theory
Non-Cantorian set theory
One-to-one correspondence
Ordered pair
Partition of a set
Pointed set
Power set
Projection (set theory)
Proper subset
Proper superset
Range (mathematics)
Russell's paradox
Sequence (mathematics)
Set (mathematics)
Set of all sets
Simple theorems in the algebra of sets
Singleton (mathematics)
Skolem paradox
Subset
Superset
Tuple
Uncountable set
Union (set theory)
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Metalogic – The study of the metatheory of logic.
Completeness (logic)
Syntax (logic)
Consistency
Decidability (logic)
Deductive system
Interpretation (logic)
Cantor's theorem
Church's theorem
Church's thesis
Effective method
Formal system
Gödel's completeness theorem
Gödel's first incompleteness theorem
Gödel's second incompleteness theorem
Independence (mathematical logic)
Logical consequence
Löwenheim-Skolem theorem
Metalanguage
Metasyntactic variable
Metatheorem
Object language
Symbol (formal)
Type-token distinction
Use–mention distinction
Well-formed formula
Proof theory – The study of deductive apparatus.
Axiom
Deductive system
Formal proof
Formal system
Formal theorem
Syntactic consequence
Syntax (logic)
Transformation rules
Model theory – The study of interpretation of formal systems.
Interpretation (logic)
Logical validity
Non-standard model
Normal model
Model
Semantic consequence
Truth value
Computability theory – branch of mathematical logic that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees. The field has grown to include the study of generalized computability and definability. The basic questions addressed by recursion theory are "What does it mean for a function from the natural numbers to themselves to be computable?" and "How can noncomputable functions be classified into a hierarchy based on their level of noncomputability?". The answers to these questions have led to a rich theory that is still being actively researched.
Alpha recursion theory
Arithmetical set
Church–Turing thesis
Computability logic
Computable function
Computation
Decision problem
Effective method
Entscheidungsproblem
Enumeration
Forcing (recursion theory)
Halting problem
History of the Church–Turing thesis
Lambda calculus
List of undecidable problems
Post correspondence problem
Post's theorem
Primitive recursive function
Recursion (computer science)
Recursive language
Recursive languages and sets
Recursive set
Recursively enumerable language
Recursively enumerable set
Reduction (recursion theory)
Turing machine
Classical logic –
Properties of classical logics:
Law of the excluded middle
Double negative elimination
Law of noncontradiction
Principle of explosion
Monotonicity of entailment
Idempotency of entailment
Commutativity of conjunction
De Morgan duality – every logical operator is dual to another
Term logic
General concepts in classical logic
Baralipton
Baroco
Bivalence
Boolean logic
Boolean-valued function
Categorical proposition
Distribution of terms
End term
Enthymeme
Immediate inference
Law of contraries
Logical connective
Major term
Middle term
Minor term
Organon
Polysyllogism
Port-Royal Logic
Premise
Prior Analytics
Relative term
Sorites paradox
Square of opposition
Sum of Logic
Syllogism
Tetralemma
Truth function
Non-classical logic – Deviant logic –
Computability logic –
Fuzzy logic –
Linear logic –
Decision theory –
Game theory –
Probability theory –
Affine logic –
Bunched logic –
Description logic –
Free logic –
Intensional logic –
Intuitionistic logic –
Many-valued logic –
Minimal logic –
Noncommutative logic –
Non-monotonic logic –
Paraconsistent logic –
Quantum logic –
Relevance logic –
Strict logic –
Substructural logic –
Modal logic –
Alethic logic –
Axiological logic –
Deontic logic –
Doxastic logic –
Epistemic logic –
Temporal logic –
Deductive reasoning –
Inductive reasoning –
Abductive reasoning –
Mathematical logic –
Proof theory –
Set theory –
Formal system –
Predicate logic –
Predicate –
Higher-order logic –
Propositional calculus –
Proposition –
Boolean algebra –
Boolean logic –
Truth value –
Venn diagram –
Pierce's law –
Aristotelian logic –
Non-Aristotelian logic –
Informal logic –
Fuzzy logic –
Infinitary logic –
Infinity –
Categorical logic –
College logic –
Linear logic –
Metalogic –
Ordered logic –
Temporal logic –
Sequential logic –
Provability logic –
Interpretability logic –
Interpretability –
Quantum logic –
Relevant logic –
Consequent –
Affirming the consequent –
Antecedent –
Denying the antecedent –
Theorem –
Axiom –
Axiomatic system –
Axiomatization –
Conditional proof –
Invalid proof –
Degree of truth –
Truth –
Truth condition –
Truth function –
Double negative –
Double negative elimination –
Fallacy –
Existential fallacy –
Logical fallacy –
Syllogistic fallacy –
Type theory –
Game theory –
Game semantics –
Rule of inference –
Inference procedure –
Inference rule –Quantification
Introduction rule –
Law of excluded middle –
Law of non-contradiction –
Logical constant –
Logical connective –
Quantifier –
Logic gate –
Boolean Function –
Tautology –
Logical assertion –
Logical conditional –
Logical biconditional –
Logical equivalence –
Logical AND –
Negation –
Logical OR –
Logical NAND –
Logical NOR –
Contradiction –
Logicism –
Polysyllogism –
Syllogism –
Hypothetical syllogism –
Major premise –
Minor premise –
Term –
Singular term –
Major term –
Middle term –
Quantification –
Plural quantification –
Logical argument –
Validity –
Soundness –
Inverse (logic) –
Non sequitur –
Tolerance –
Satisfiability –
Logical language –
Paradox –
Polish notation –
Principia Mathematica –
Quod erat demonstrandum –
Reductio ad absurdum –
Rhetoric –
Self-reference –
Necessary and sufficient –
Sufficient condition –
Nonfirstorderizability –
Occam's Razor –
Socratic dialoge –
Socratic method –
Argument form –
Logic programming –
Unification –
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Journal of Philosophical Logic
A System of Logic
Attacking Faulty Reasoning
Begriffsschrift
Categories (Aristotle)
Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography
De Interpretatione
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Language, Truth, and Logic
Laws of Form
Linguistics and Philosophy
Logic Made Easy
Metamagical Themas
Minds, Machines and Gödel
Novum Organum
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
Organon
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophy of Arithmetic
Polish Logic
Port-Royal Logic
Posterior Analytics
Principia Mathematica
Principles of Mathematical Logic
Prior Analytics
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Sophistical Refutations
Sum of Logic
The Art of Being Right
The Foundations of Arithmetic
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Topics (Aristotle)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Where Mathematics Comes From
Association for Symbolic Logic
List of logicians
List of philosophers of language