Abstract Logic has been playing an important role in philosophy over the past hundred years. This role has been reflected not only in their increasing inner relations in theory, but also in the close relationship between logic and the Vienna Circle, logical positivism and analytical philosophy in practice. Logic and philosophy are mutually independent. Logic addresses itself to the study of consequence relationship while philosophy addresses relatively more open and general issues. Logic and philosophy are also interdependent. Logic depends on the basic presupposition of philosophy. Conceptual issues of logic can only be effectively dealt with by strictlytrained philosophical thinkers. Philosophy provides nourishment for the growth of logic. Quite a few causal attributions of logical development come from comprehensive philosophical issues. Philosophical issues of logic itself give impetus to the development of other areas of logic. On the other hand, philosophy depends on logic. Logic provides philosophy with precise technical terms and logistic systems to optimize and communicate philosophical discourse. Logic can be used in the discussion of philosophical issues by means of statement, clarification and derivation. The relationship between logic and philosophy can only be fully understood through language in both dynamic and static analyses. Dynamic analysis proclaims the historic significance of the interplay between logic and philosophy at the language level. Aristotle logic has the features of ancient dialectics. Medieval logic is featured by ontology and linguistic philosophy. Kant explained logic from the perspective of epistemology. Bolzano and Mill linked logic to methodology. Leibniz, Boole and Frege developed mathematics in logic. Around 1900, modern logic began to have its philosophical motivation. Several philosophical principles (e.g. logicism and Russells misleading form thesis) built up on the basis of ideal logic were proposed. Thereafter, Carnap and Hempel started scientific philosophy in logic, and Wittgenstein and Austin started a ″Natural Language Turn″ in philosophical analysis. Hintikka, Geach, Kripke, Rachel, Lewis, Montague and Stalnaker extended logic to the analyses of modal, time, knowledge, responsibility, action and counterfactuals. The structure of the linguistic interaction between logic and philosophy emerges in static analysis. We may examine such interesting philosophical issues as the logical structure of natural language, the metaphysical relationship between the whole and its parts, the jurisdiction of faith and code of conduct, etc., go on to describe the logical mathematical structure which shows the features of these objects, and study these objects by examining their structure.
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