Formal logic is acquired through work, not innate

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

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Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s core pedagogical claim: rationality and logic are learned social constructions, not innate capacities — a foundational idea for how hegemonic formation works.

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