Artificial Intelligence-Logic Relationship: The Case of Aristotle
Chapter from the book: İnci, Ü. H. (ed.) 2025. Humans in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: From Art to Health, Society to Technology.

Vildan Doğanay
Hacettepe University

Synopsis

Aristotle (384-322), the most important name of Greek philosophy after Plato, who is one of the most fundamental building blocks of the history of thought, who bears many adjectives that are ‘first’ and who takes this ‘firstness’ from being the founder of ‘logic’, which basically allows thinking and doing science, wrote “Categories” under the name ‘Organon’, On Proposition, First Analytics, Second Analytics, Topics and Refutation of Sophistic Proofs", he dealt with the foundations of logic and reasoning methods, thus systematising reasoning. Today, it is known that Artificial Intelligence applications, which are increasing in both their number and use day by day, are systems that make decisions by analysing data and use logical inference methods to a great extent while making these decisions. In this study, it is examined how Aristotle's ideas in the logic system form a basis for the use of logic principles in artificial intelligence applications. Aristotle sees logic not as the study of words but of the thoughts that words point to. Thus, it is a matter of analysing thoughts based on whether they are successful in reaching the truth or not. Decision trees, natural language processing and logical inference processes, which play a central role in decision making in artificial intelligence, are based on logic. Aristotle sees logic as the study not of words but of the thoughts that words signify. Thus, thoughts are analysed based on whether they are successful in reaching the truth or not. In artificial intelligence, decision trees, natural language processing and logical inference processes, which play a central role in decision making, are based on logic. The fact that Aristotle is the founder of logic and that the rules of logic continue to be applied in scientific studies from past to present, and especially in today's artificial intelligence studies, makes it important to examine Aristotle, the founder of this field, in the relationship between artificial intelligence and logic.

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Doğanay, V. (2025). Artificial Intelligence-Logic Relationship: The Case of Aristotle. In: İnci, Ü. H. (ed.), Humans in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: From Art to Health, Society to Technology. Özgür Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58830/ozgur.pub1098.c4386

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December 30, 2025

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