Formal logic is acquired through study, not innate as curricula assume

Evidence

The rules of formal logic are abstractions of the same kind, they are like the grammar of normal thought; but they still need to be studied, since they are not something innate, but have to be acquired through work and reflection. The new curriculum presupposes that formal logic is something you already possess when you think, but does not explain how it is to be acquired, so that in practice it is assumed to be innate. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 368

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Formal logic is acquired through work, not innate; Philosophy instruction must progress from common sense through religion to systems — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1520
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Formal logic is acquired through work, not innate; Philosophy instruction must progress from common sense through religion to systems — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1520

Broader Connections