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Formal sciences

Logic

The systematic study of valid reasoning and the rules that determine when a conclusion follows from its premises.

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15 concepts47 relationships8 relation families8 bridge concepts

Concepts viewed through this lens

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Disciplines it bridges to

Each bridge is built by ideas the two fields share, the thinking patterns that recur across both, and a representative relationship that shows how they connect.

Field shape — representation health

56/100 overall · 15 concepts

The eight dimensions measure Thinking OS coverage of this field, not the quality or importance of the discipline.

  • Structural51 /100
  • Evidence40 /100
  • Foundations90 /100
  • Factual depth7 /100
  • Pedagogical47 /100
  • Cross-disciplinary100 /100
  • Provenance60 /100
  • Taxonomy100 /100

What kind of structure is this field?

Interpreted from the current atlas — how this field is represented, not a judgement of the field.

  • Representation health 56/100 — dense but shallow. Strongest: cross-disciplinary, taxonomy. Thinnest: factual depth.

    structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.

  • 79% of its relations reach into 34 other disciplines — an outward-facing field in the atlas.

    structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.

  • Its 56 representation-health is above the 55 median of 211 similarly-sized disciplines (comparable by concept count).

    structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.

  • 20% of its concepts have a single connection (mean internal degree 1.3) — a fairly cohesive internal structure.

    structural · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.

  • 53% of its concepts carry a source, 27% a Tier A/B source; 40% of relations carry claim-level evidence.

    atlas representation · Measures the current Thinking OS representation, not the quality or importance of the field.

How this lens connects

The kinds of relationship that characterise this discipline lens in the current slice.

Kind & structure16
Dependency13
Teaching link9
Explains & models3
Analogy & transfer3
Cause & effect1
Evidence1
Time order1

Coverage matrix

How these concepts distribute across domains and concept families — real counts, not a score.

SystemsInformationMatterChangePatternsEnergyLifeScaleStructureDecisionNetworksWavesCausalityComputationEarthSpaceOptimizationNumberProbabilitySecurityThresholdsConstraintsNatural sciencesFormal sciencesEngineeringMedicine & healthSocial sciencesHumanitiesProfessionalArtsInterdisciplinary1761

Knowledge timeline

Real, sourced key dates of these concepts.

4 events
200 BCE0200400600800c. 300 BCE · Algorithmc. 300 BCE · Axiomc. 300 BCE · Mathematical proofc. 820 CE · Algorithm
  • c. 300 BCEAlgorithm · First use · Computer Science
  • c. 300 BCEAxiom · Formalization · Mathematics
  • c. 300 BCEMathematical proof · Formalization · Mathematics
  • c. 820 CEAlgorithm · Formalization · Computer Science

Ideas that connect this discipline outward

Concepts viewed through this lens that reach disciplines it does not itself carry — concept-level bridges (distinct from the discipline-to-discipline bridges below).

  • AlgorithmreachesArtificial IntelligenceBiochemistryBioinformaticsBiologyCell BiologyComputational BiologyComputational ComplexityData StructuresEvolutionary BiologyGeneticsHistoryInformation TheoryMachine LearningMolecular BiologyNumerical AnalysisOptimizationStatistics
  • HypothesisreachesBiologyHistoryHistory of ScienceLawMathematicsPhysics
  • Computability theoryreachesAlgorithmsComputational ComplexityTheory of Computation
  • Set theoryreachesDiscrete MathematicsSet TheoryTopology
  • Type theoryreachesComputer ScienceMathematicsProgramming Languages
  • Lambda calculusreachesComputational ComplexityTheory of Computation

Mental models that recur here

People represented in this atlas

People tagged with this lens who have a recorded contribution. Not exhaustive, and not a ranking.

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What this lens reveals
  • 15 concepts are viewed through this lens.
  • 8 of them bridge into other disciplines.
  • Its signature thinking pattern is “Cause and effect” (recurs in 2 concepts).
  • The most common kind of connection here is “Kind & structure”.
  • It is most tightly linked to Computer Science.

Derived from the current graph structure — observations, not a judgement of the field.