What is Logic? "There is no scientific evidence that civilization is synonymous with Aristotelian rationalityˇ¦ the syllogism, the negation and the abstract classification are not discoveries of reality itself, of an eternal, absolute or self-evident truth-but simply linguistic inventions of conceptual tools which people find useful in varying degrees according to their life situation" Discuss this quote in reference to two different forms of knowledge: Physics and History. In order to comprehend what kind of role logic has in reality, as well as in different forms of knowledge, we must first interpret what is meant by this