Rigorous logical argument has a certain historical origin: public debate. The athenians of classical times were argumentative, they had a system of democratic elections, they had the art of eloquence, and they even had the strange habit of winning prizes for two people arguing a matter. The original meaning of dialectics is debate. If one side has a loophole in his speech, the other side tries to refute it.
That's where logic obviously comes from. Which of the following does not fit the meaning of the passage?
The emergence of logic may have something to do with the polemic nature of classical Athens