Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: with Additions, &cW. Jackson, 1832 - 335 páginas |
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... applied to it with profit . I am not so weak as to imagine that any System can ensure great proficiency in any pursuit whatever , either in all students , or in a very large proportion of them : " we sow many seeds to obtain a few ...
... applied to it with profit . I am not so weak as to imagine that any System can ensure great proficiency in any pursuit whatever , either in all students , or in a very large proportion of them : " we sow many seeds to obtain a few ...
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... applied . The error lies in regarding every thing as the proper province of Logic to which it is applicable . A similar error is complained of by Aristotle , as having taken place with respect to Rhetoric ; of which , indeed , we find ...
... applied . The error lies in regarding every thing as the proper province of Logic to which it is applicable . A similar error is complained of by Aristotle , as having taken place with respect to Rhetoric ; of which , indeed , we find ...
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... applied in many other cases , where its ab- surdity would be obvious ; and that there is no ground for founds with Reasoning . ) He says , in § 4 , " If syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and means of ...
... applied in many other cases , where its ab- surdity would be obvious ; and that there is no ground for founds with Reasoning . ) He says , in § 4 , " If syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and means of ...
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... applied to all subjects whatever , are yet disposed to view it as a peculiar method of reasoning , and not , as it is , a method of unfolding and analyzing our rea- soning : whence many have been led ( e . g . the author of the ...
... applied to all subjects whatever , are yet disposed to view it as a peculiar method of reasoning , and not , as it is , a method of unfolding and analyzing our rea- soning : whence many have been led ( e . g . the author of the ...
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... ( without any alteration of its mean- ing ) into the syllogistic form ; in which form , the test just mentioned may be applied to it . unsound arguments . What is called an unsound or fallacious 30 [ Book I. ELEMENTS OF LOGIC .
... ( without any alteration of its mean- ing ) into the syllogistic form ; in which form , the test just mentioned may be applied to it . unsound arguments . What is called an unsound or fallacious 30 [ Book I. ELEMENTS OF LOGIC .
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abstract Adam Smith admitted affirmed ambiguity animals antecedent applied argument Arian Aristotle ascer ascertain assertion belong Cæsar called categorical Categorical propositions categorical syllogisms Chap Christian circumstance clusion common Conclusion connexion consequently considered Copula course definition denied denote Differentia Discovery distinct divine employed Enthymeme error established evident expression fact Fallacy Fallacy of Division false falsity genus gism hence hypothetical ignoratio elenchi implied impossible individual Induction infer instance ject kind labor language Logical writers Logicians major Premiss marks of design Mathematics matter meaning ment merely middle term mind minor miracles nature negative never notion object observed Organon paronymous particular perhaps persons petitio principii practice predicate principles probably process of Reasoning properly proposition prove question referred regarded religion remarks respecting rience rules Science Scripture sense signify sion Sorites speaking Species strictly suppose Syllogism thing tion treatise Tritheism true truth universal whole word
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Página 280 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Página 216 - We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling.block, and to the Greeks foolishness but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God...
Página 146 - ... the sophist persuades the multitude, that a member of the House of Commons is bound to be guided in all points by the opinion of his constituents ; and, in short, to be merely their spokesman : whereas law and custom, which in this case may be considered as fixing the meaning of the term, require no such thing, but enjoin the representative to act according to the best of his own judgment, and on his own responsibility.
Página 95 - The English are a brave people ; a brave People are free ; a free people are happy ; therefore the English are happy." A Sorites, then, has as many middle Terms as there are intermediate Propositions between the first and the last ; and consequently, it may be drawn out into as many separate Syllogisms ; of which the first will have, for its major Premiss, the second, and for its minor, the first of the Proposi• tions of the Sorites ; as may be seen by the example.
Página 287 - The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other, "value in exchange.
Página 15 - IN every instance in which we reason, in the strict sense of the word, ie make use of arguments, (I mean real, ie valid arguments) whether for the sake of refuting an adversary, or of conveying instruction, or of satisfying our own minds on any point, whatever may be the subject we are engaged on, a certain process takes place in the mind which is one and the same in all cases, provided it be correctly conducted.
Página 68 - Figure the Middle term is the predicate of both premises: in the third, the subject of both: in the fourth, the predicate of the Major premiss, and the subject of the Minor. (This...
Página 247 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Página 68 - When the middle term is made the subject of the major premiss, and the predicate of the minor, that is called the first figure ; (which is far the most natural and clear of all, as to this alone Aristotle's dictum may be at once applied.) In the second figure the middle term is the predicate of both premises : in the third, the subject of both : in the fourth, the predicate of the major premiss, and the subject of the minor.