Logic; Or, The Analytic of Explicit ReasoningPutnam, 1901 - 266 Seiten |
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abstract accident affirmative proposition analysis apodictic applied Aristotle assumed called the Fallacy Celarent class denoted common commonly consists constitute construed contradictory copula corresponding defined definition dicto simpliciter Dictum de Omni distinction distinguished doctrine equal equation equivalent Equivocation essential example exclusively fact Fallacy of Accident false fictitious figure formal former genus gism Hence Hobbes Ignoratio Elenchi illicit assumption illicit substitution included individuals inference intuitively Irrelevant Conclusion judgment kind lacies language latter logical processes logicians mankind Material Fallacies mathematical meaning middle term minor premise Moral Sciences nature negative proposition nonsensical notions or concepts observed obviously opinions osition particular propositions perceived political predicate principle prop ratiocination rational reductio ad absurdum regarded relations of terms Secundum Quid sense significative relation simply sion Sovereignty species Subcontraries syllogism theory things thought tion true truth universal affirmative vocal Whately words Y is X
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Seite 131 - ... from very plain and easy beginnings, by gentle degrees, and a continued chain of reasonings, proceed to the discovery and demonstration of truths that appear at first sight beyond human capacity.
Seite 236 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 230 - A servant who was roasting a stork for his master, was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired to know what was become of the other leg. The man answered, that storks had never more than one leg.
Seite 90 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Seite 259 - Of this he seems to be sensible, and somewhere makes an apology for it. When he affirms, as he does in innumerable places, that all human knowledge consists in the perception of the agreement or disagreement of our ideas, it is impossible to put a meaning upon this, consistent with his principles, unless he means by ideas every object of human thought, whether mediate or immediate ; everything, in a word, that can be signified by the subject, or predicate of a proposition.
Seite 233 - For some part of the inestimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its title, reached to many thousands more than, I fear, it would have done, had he called it (what it is merely) a grammatical Essay, or a Treatise on Words or on Language.
Seite 127 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Seite 235 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Seite 57 - ... when it is taken universally, so as to stand for every thing it is capable of being applied to ; and consequently " undis-" tributed," when it stands for a portion only of the things signified by it : thus, " all food," or every kind of food, are expressions which imply the distribution of the term "food;
Seite 170 - is the science of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence; both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations in so far as auxiliary to this.