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Port-Royal Logic, or Logique de Port-Royal, is the common name of La logique, ou l'art de penser, an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld, — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a France Roman Catholic theology, philosopher, and mathematician....
 and Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole

Pierre Nicole was one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists.Born in Chartres, he was the son of a provincial barrister. Sent to Paris in 1642 to study theology, he soon entered into relations with the Jansenist community at Port-Royal-des-Champs through his aunt, Marie des Anges Suireau, who was for a short time abbess of the...
, two prominent members of the Jansenist
Jansenism

Jansenism was a branch of Roman Catholic Church thought which arose in the frame of the Counter-Reformation and the aftermath of the Council of Trent ....
 movement, centered around Port-Royal. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal , was a France mathematician, physicist, and religion philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant....
 likely contributed considerable portions of the text. Its linguistic companion piece is the Port Royal Grammar (1660).

Written in the vernacular, it became quite popular and was in use up to the twentieth century, introducing the reader to logic, and exhibiting strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology (Arnauld having been one of the main philosophers whose objections were published, with replies, in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy

Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophy treatise written by Ren? Descartes first published in Latin language in 1641. The French language translation was made by the Duke of Luynes with the supervision of Descartes and was published in 1647 with the title M?ditations Metaphysiques....
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Port-Royal Logic, or Logique de Port-Royal, is the common name of La logique, ou l'art de penser, an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld, — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a France Roman Catholic theology, philosopher, and mathematician....
 and Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole

Pierre Nicole was one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists.Born in Chartres, he was the son of a provincial barrister. Sent to Paris in 1642 to study theology, he soon entered into relations with the Jansenist community at Port-Royal-des-Champs through his aunt, Marie des Anges Suireau, who was for a short time abbess of the...
, two prominent members of the Jansenist
Jansenism

Jansenism was a branch of Roman Catholic Church thought which arose in the frame of the Counter-Reformation and the aftermath of the Council of Trent ....
 movement, centered around Port-Royal. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal , was a France mathematician, physicist, and religion philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant....
 likely contributed considerable portions of the text. Its linguistic companion piece is the Port Royal Grammar (1660).

Written in the vernacular, it became quite popular and was in use up to the twentieth century, introducing the reader to logic, and exhibiting strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology (Arnauld having been one of the main philosophers whose objections were published, with replies, in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy

Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophy treatise written by Ren? Descartes first published in Latin language in 1641. The French language translation was made by the Duke of Luynes with the supervision of Descartes and was published in 1647 with the title M?ditations Metaphysiques....
). The Port-Royal Logic is sometimes cited as a paradigmatic example of traditional term logic
Term logic

In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic, is a loose name for the way of doing logic that began with Aristotle, and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic in the late nineteenth century....
.

The philosopher Louis Marin particularly studied it in the 20th century (La Critique du discours, Éditions de Minuit, 1975), while Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosophy, historian, intellectual, Critical theory and sociologist. He held a chair at the Coll?ge de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley....
 considered it, in The Order of Things
The Order of Things

The Order of Things is a book written by Michel Foucault and was published in 1966.The full title of the book is: Les Mots et les choses: Une arch?ologie des sciences humaines....
, one of the bases of modern épistémè
Episteme

Episteme, as distinguished from techne, is etymologically derived from the Greek language word ?p?st??? for knowledge or science, which comes from the verb ?p?sta?a?, "to know"....
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