...SCIENCE OF LOGIC IN PARTICULAR ; ALSO OF THE LAWS TO WHICH THAT CLASS OF SIGNS ARE SUBJECT. 1 • nPH AT Language is an instrument of human reason, and -*-...Language, considered as a system adapted to an end or pur[K>se ; to investigate its elements ; to seek to determine their mutual relation and dependence...

...instrument of reasoning. This idea may, perhaps, be better given in his own language : — " That langnage is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . The elements of which all language consibts are signs or symbols. Words are signs. ... A sign...

...as an instrument of reasoning. This idea may, perhaps, be better given in his own language: — That language is an instrument of human reason, and not...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . The elements of which all language consists are signs or symbols. Words are signs. ... A sign...

...Boole, something like this view had become common among early and mid-nineteenth-century thinkers. That language is an instrument of human reason, and not...expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. . . . whether we regard signs as the representatives of things and of their relations, or as the representatives...

...process, and destroy all gronnd of confidence in the result.' — J. ti. Mill, Logic, \.,\. ' That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thonght, is a truth generally admitted It is the business of science to investigate laws ; and, whether...