Category:Logic

Logic is used in most intellectual activities; its practice examines general forms which Wikipedia:arguments may take, which forms are valid, and which are fallacies. It is one kind of Wikipedia:critical thinking. The study of logic itself takes place primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. In philosophy, the study of logic figures in most major areas of focus: epistemology, ethics, metaphysics. In mathematics, it is the study of valid Wikipedia:inferences within some Wikipedia:formal language.

Logic is often divided into two parts, Wikipedia:inductive reasoning and Wikipedia:deductive reasoning. The first is drawing general conclusions from specific examples, the second drawing logical conclusions from definitions and axioms.