TPT I: Logic Workbook

The "three ways" or Trivium of classical education are the language arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Though they are best understood as an integrated whole, we might describe grammar as the study of the parts and pieces of language; its building blocks. Logic is the art of expressing correct reasoning using those blocks. Rhetoric is the art of communicating "well," adding the perfections of beauty to the truths of language. Grammar is studied, formally, in our Latin program; here you find Logic and Rhetoric in years I and II. These are the tools that precede and make possible all further studies, especially philosophy and theology. In the third and final course, the students examine how the tools they have learned find application in a variety of specific sciences, setting up the transition from the Trivium to the Quadrivium, learning still more about logic and rhetoric, and pausing to look over the whole range of the arts and sciences to note how they fit together and point man to God. This workbook includes all activities that must be submitted for grading for the Logic course at Oxrose Academy.