Logică şi gândire creativă

Alin Alexe asks how logic and creative thought can work together. He starts with the logic test for entry to law studies. This is the test at Babeș-Bolyai University. His study guide helps those who seek a place. It also asks how teachers can make logic clear.

The book gives two fast ways to solve logic problems. Short parts on theory give readers tools for these tasks. One method puts facts and questions into clear deductive forms. These forms show what must follow from the given facts. The other draws on determinism and its link to the laws of thought.

For Alexe, logic helps us grasp the world. It is more than a set of formal rules. He draws on Wittgenstein to link the real world, thought and language. He explains the distribution of terms through “all” and “some.” This concerns whether terms refer to all or part of a group. A claim about part cannot justify one about the whole. He aims to ground abstract rules in plain sense and intuition.

Parts on theory come at the start and between chapters. Some parts use parables, or short tales, to explore ideas. Others take playful forms. An added section holds a further study. These parts go beyond exam practice. They explore how we learn and teach logic.