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by link_108 3972 days ago
Well logic is a sub-category of philosophy, not mathematics. Logic and math are similar in some ways, but logic != math. Both contain lots of symbols and formal methods of getting from a to b, however the content is quite different. There is overlap however in mathematical logic, but again, logic systems != math.
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> Well logic is a sub-category of philosophy, not mathematics.

I disagree! (I would probably say something like that logic, in its informal mathematical meaning (i.e., the meaning that would be given it by a mathematician who is not a logician), lives at the intersection at least of all the sciences.) Nonetheless, it's probably more a matter of terminology, if not even just of my ignorance of the proper domain of philosophy, than of substantive disagreement.