Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract The Conclusion summarizes the key findings of the book and reiterates the importance of logical concepts and processes to literary thinking and writing. It sketches some of the outlines that defined academic and philosophical discussions of logic in the mid- and late seventeenth century, and offers some preliminary suggestions on how we might negotiate the relationships between literature and logic in an intellectual environment increasingly dominated by the parameters of proto-scientific inquiry. The Conclusion ends with a return to the beginnings of logical theory and uses the Aristotelian predicaments, and their reinterpretations in Medieval philosophy, to illustrate the continuing relevance of logical categories to questions of individual selfhood and social identity.