Josina Carolina van Lynden (1716/1717 − 6 October 1791) was a Dutch philosopher who, in 1770, published a book on Logic, called De Logica of redenkunde.
[2] In De Logica of redenkunde, she uses logical reasoning as a tool for searching religious truths and interpreting the Bible.
One of the parts consists of a critique of John Locke's idea of the mind as a tabula rasa, the theory that humans are born with no innate knowledge and that.
It was positively received, with one critic commenting that it showed that women were also capable of abstract thinking and reasoning.
[6] Jensen states that the very modest tone in the preface shows Van Lynden was very much aware of her position as a woman in the field of logic.