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SUMMARY:Sara Uckelman (Durham University)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/OLS/72/">Joh
 n Eliot's <i>Logick Primer</i>: A bilingual English-Algonquian logic textb
 ook</a>\nby Sara Uckelman (Durham University) as part of Online logic semi
 nar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn 1672 John Eliot\, English Puritan educator and missi
 onary\, published <i>The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate t
 he INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason\; and to know how to mak
 e use thereof</i> [1].  This roughly 80 page pamphlet focuses on introduci
 ng basic syllogistic vocabulary and reasoning so that syllogisms can be cr
 eated from texts in the Psalms\, the gospels\, and other New Testament boo
 ks.  The use of logic for proselytizing purposes is not distinctive: What 
 is distinctive about Eliot's book is that it is bilingual\, written in bot
 h English and Massachusett\, an Algonquian language spoken in eastern coas
 tal and southeastern Massachusetts.  It is one of the earliest bilingual l
 ogic textbooks\, it is the only textbook that I know of in an indigenous A
 merican language\, and it is one of the earliest printed attestations of t
 he Massachusett language.\n\n<p>In this talk\, I will:\n<ul>\n<li>Introduc
 e John Eliot and the linguistic context he was working in.</li\n<li>Introd
 uce the contents of the <i>Logick Primer</i>---vocabulary\, inference patt
 erns\, and applications.</li>\n<li>Discuss notions of ``Puritan'' logic th
 at inform this primer.</li>\n<li>Talk about the importance of his work in 
 documenting and expanding the Massachusett language and the problems that 
 accompany his colonial approach to this work.</li></ul></p>\n\n[1] J.[ohn]
  E.[liot]. <i>The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDI
 ANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason\; and to know how to make use t
 hereof</i>. Printed by M. J.\, 1672\n
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