ABSTRACT
The way in which logic, in the course of the twentieth century, shifted its attention from natural languages to artificial languages completely changed its nature, and that this change has not been reflected in all of its complexity yet. The naive view is that we have got rid of the messy and blurry natural language in favor of the orderly and transparent formal languages of logic. True, the emergence of the artificial languages of logic boosted the enterprise of logic in an unprecedented way – it helped us see, clearly and distinctly, many important facts regarding reasoning and argumentation in a way that had never been possible before. However, the accelerated enterprise of logic also took a new, unprecedented direction: it not only offered new answers to old questions, but also posed brand new questions that, sometimes, had little to do with the old ones.
