Aristotle's Original Idea: For and Against Logic in the era of AI
This is an incremental philosophical analysis that may interest researchers in AI and logic, but it does not address a specific technical problem.
The paper examines Aristotle's foundational ideas on logic and reasoning from a modern AI perspective, exploring whether his concepts of universal reasoning systems can enhance our understanding of AI and science.
Aristotle is generally accepted as the father of logic. The ideas that he raised in his study of logical reasoning carried the development of science over the centuries. Today, in the era of AI, this title of the fatherhood of logic has a renewed significance. Behind it lies his original idea that human reasoning could be studied as a process and that perhaps there exist universal systems of reasoning that underly all human reasoning irrespective of the content of what we are reasoning about. In this article, we look into Aristotle's work on human thought, his work on reasoning itself but also on how it relates to science and human endeavor more generally, from a modern perspective of Artificial Intelligence and ask if this can help enlighten our understanding of AI and Science more generally.