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been the chief agent of change, though largely aided by the inherited effects of habit, and slightly by the direct action of the surrounding conditions. I was not, however, able to annul the influence of my former belief, then almost universal, that each species had been purposely created; and this led to my tacit assumption that every detail of structure, excepting rudiments, was of some special, though unrecognized, service.” (Darwin's "Descent of Man", part 1, chap. 2.) What tendency

does this illustrate ?

17. "The assertion of a fact wholly beyond the reach of evidence, for or against, is to be held as untrue." (Bain's "Logic", p. 382.) Discuss this.

INDEX.

Abstract nouns, 60; definition of,
67.
Abstractions, hypostatising, 66.
Abstractly denominated principle,
fallacy of, 369.
Absurd questions, 208.
Absurdity as test of truth, 414.

Accent, fallacy of, 39, 43.

Accident, fallacy of, 42, 43.
Accidents, definition of, 50.
Accuracy, misplaced, 306.

Agreement, double method of, 277;
method of, 261 ff.

Ambiguities, 13 ff.; of quality and
quantity, 98.
Amphibology, 39, 42 n.
Analogy, argument from, 413;
false, 209.

Analysis, causal, 257; hexateuchal,
379.

Analytic propositions, 82.
Antecedent, 106, 270; denying
the, 185.

Appeal to consequences, 10.
Apperception, 412 n.
Apprehension, simple, 5 n.
Aquinas, Thos., 107.

Archimedes, 326.
Areolus, Petrus, 417 n.
'Argument', legal, 400 n.
Arguments, abbreviated, 188.
Argumentum ad hominem, 12, 201,
202; ad populum, 12, 201, 202;
ad rem, 12; ad verecundiam, 367.
Aristotle, 40 n., 83 n., 133 n., 176,

214, 420.
Arnold, Matthew, 42.
Authority, argument from, 367.
Authorship, joint, 378.
Averages, general, 312.

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Illicit major, 158 n., 170, 174 n.
Illicit minor, 158 n., 170 n., 174 n.
Illusion, 91.

Inductio per enumerationem sim-
plicem, 251, 257.

Induction, 122; Aristotelian, 250;
certainty of, 226; distinguished
from deduction, 221; perfect,
227, 250.
Inference, 121; by added deter-
minants, 75; by privitive con-
ception, 130; data for, 270; im-
mediate, 131; in observation,
343; mediate, 145; real, 152.
Infima species, 50.
Infinitation, 130.
Innate principles, 230.
Intension, 61.

Interaction, 235; causal, 245.
Interest, errors due to, 302.
Interpretation, blunders of, 13.
Irrelevance, 198.

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Method, indirect, of difference, 278;
joint, 275; of agreement, 264;
of concomitant variations, 290,
296; of difference, 261, 288; of
elimination, 254; of exhaustion,
250; of residues, 288; of statis-
tics, 296.

Methods, the four, 262.

Mill, J. S., 35, 83n., 107, 261,
262, 263, 278, 284, 287, 290 n.,
292, 295 n.

Minto, 20 n., 48 n., 64 n., 83 n.,
100 ff., 104 n., 186 n., 210 n.,
251 n., 262 n., 349 n., 369, 370.
Modus ponens, 183.

Modus tollens, 183.

Motet, 353.

Naming, use of, 55.

Neglected articulation, 212; as-
pect, 211; member, 215; whole,

219.
Newton, I., 244, 419
Nicolay, Col., 350.
Noetic relation, 82.
Non-observation, 348.
Non-sequitur, 195.
Nouns, common, 60.
Number, 85.

Object of thought, 3.

Objections, fallacy of, 220.
Observation, 343; unprejudiced,
347.

Obversion, 130.

Occam's razor, 417.

Opposite terms, 73.

Parsimony, law of, 418.
Permutation, 130.
Personal equation, 300
Petitio principii, 196.

Phrases, conventional, 36; uses
of, 56.

Plato, 133 n.

Pleadings, 400.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, 272
Powell, Baden, 223 n.
Precision, where needed, 34.
Preconception, errors of, 302.
Predicate, quantification of, 136.
Premise, 121; major, 150, 169;

minor, 150.
Probability, 330 ff.; as a test of
truth, 392; value of finding, 334.
Probable error, 328.
Proof, limits of, 423.
Proper nouns, 60.
Prophecy, 356.

Propositions, 2, 82; accidental, 82;
affirmative, 96; ampliative, 82;
analytic, 82; categorical, 106;
contradictory, 113, 114, 117;
contrary, 113, 114, 117; copu-
lative, 106n.; disjunctive, 106;
essential, 82; exceptive, 103,
115; exclusive, 103, 115; expli-
cative, 82; formal characteris-
tics of, 96; hypothetical, 106;
indefinite, 99; indesignate, 99;
modal, 85, 86; negative, 96,
106 n.; opposition of, III; par-
ticular, 96, 110 n.; preindesig-
nate, 99; pure, 85; real, 82;
remotive, 106 n.; singular, 96,
113 n.; subaltern, 114; subal-
ternate, 114; subcontrary, 114;
synthetic, 82; universal, 96, 109;
verbal, 82.
Propria, 50.
Prosyllogism, 189.

Quality, 96; undesignated, 99.
Quantity, 96, 97; double, 102; un-
designated, 99.

Reality, conception of, 91.
Reasoning, correct, 6; to the point,

12.

Reduction of oblique figures, 178.
References, fallacy of, 369.
Relations, combined, 84; denials
of, 89; five fundamental, 77;
how interwoven, 253.

Residues, method of, 288.

Schopenhauer, 76.

Science, and religion, 425; work
of, 244.

Selection, accidental, 304.
Sigwart, 79, 84.

Simplicity as test of truth, 405,
416, 421.
Socrates, 241.

Sorites, 188, 189.

Space, ideas of, 5; relation of, 80..
Species, 49.

Spencer, H., 15 n., 31, 89, 90.
Statements, interpretation of, 36.
Statistics, method of, 296.

Stephen, L., II.

Subject, and attribute, 78; of re-
lation, 87; of sentence, 3, 87;
of thought, 3.
Sui generis, 50.

Summum genus, 50.

Sumner, W. G., 21 n., 65 n., 215 n.,
216.

Syllogism, 145; figures of, 148;
disjunctive, 186; first figure of,
150; fourth figure of, 176; hypo-
thetical, 183; rules of, 177 n.;
second figure of, 162; third
figure of, 171.
Synthetic propositions, 82.

Tenterden, Lord, 43.

Terms, 56; absolute, 73; abstract,
65, 70; collective, 63; concrete,
65; connotative and non-conno-
tative, 60; contradictory, 73;
contrary, 73; contrapositive, 73;
correlative, 74; demonstrative,
58, 69 n.; descriptive, 69 n.;
distributed, 135; distributive, 63;
general, 61; negative, 71; oppo-
site, 73; paronymous, 28; posi-
tive, 71, 75; relative, 73, 74;
singular, 61.
Testimony, 363.
Thinking, clear, 2, 6; clear by
analysis, 259; hazy, 240; logi-
cal, 6; objective, 6; two kinds
of, I.
Thing, 233-4;

242.

permanence of,

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