Logic; Or, The Analytic of Explicit ReasoningPutnam, 1901 - 266 Seiten |
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... opinion that Logic is a purely formal science , and as such concerned only with the forms , and not with the matter or content of language or of thought ; or , in other words , that it does not deal with what is thought or expressed ...
... opinion that Logic is a purely formal science , and as such concerned only with the forms , and not with the matter or content of language or of thought ; or , in other words , that it does not deal with what is thought or expressed ...
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... opinion , which may be either true or false . Hence the inquiry as to the origin and nature of opinion must be the first in order of investigation . Nor until this investigation has been made will we be pre- pared to determine the ...
... opinion , which may be either true or false . Hence the inquiry as to the origin and nature of opinion must be the first in order of investigation . Nor until this investigation has been made will we be pre- pared to determine the ...
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... OPINION . -Men generally confound this distinction , and regard all their settled opinions or beliefs as knowledge . This is not merely false , but ab- surd ; for not only do the opinions of men differ , but the opinions of the same man ...
... OPINION . -Men generally confound this distinction , and regard all their settled opinions or beliefs as knowledge . This is not merely false , but ab- surd ; for not only do the opinions of men differ , but the opinions of the same man ...
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... opinions , we must distinguish between those derived from our own experience and those de- rived from the experience ... opinions . For the greater part of what we know , or think we know , is not original with us , but has come to us ...
... opinions , we must distinguish between those derived from our own experience and those de- rived from the experience ... opinions . For the greater part of what we know , or think we know , is not original with us , but has come to us ...
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... opinions , verified and unverified - that is to say , not only of our opinions generally , but of our knowledge or science . But , regarding lan- guage as a record and source of opinion , we must distinguish between the forms in which ...
... opinions , verified and unverified - that is to say , not only of our opinions generally , but of our knowledge or science . But , regarding lan- guage as a record and source of opinion , we must distinguish between the forms in which ...
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abstract accident affirmative proposition analysis apodictic applied argument Aristotle assumed called the Fallacy Celarent class denoted common commonly consists constitute construed contradictory copula corresponding defined definition 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 inference intuitively Irrelevant Conclusion judgment kind knowledge lacies language latter Laws of Thought 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 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 216 - ... the horses that were each black and white. The legatee claimed that he was entitled to both classes ; and, hence, in the one or the other of his claims, was guilty of this fallacy. § 203 (5). THE FALLACY OF ACCENT OR PROSODY (F. ACCENTUS F. PROSODI&\ — This fallacy is also a species of equivocation, ie, either Homonymy or Amphiboly. It consists in varying the meaning of a term or proposition by change of accent, tone, or punctuation. The most extreme case of this is that of irony, by which...
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.
Seite 12 - By what steps we are to proceed in these, is to be learned in the schools of the mathematicians. who 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 16 - And the most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree, yet it serves them to little use in common life, in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another. For as for 'science,' or certain rules of their actions, they are so far from it that they know not what...
Seite 131 - Him thus intent, Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly ; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper, but returns Of force to its own likeness : up he starts, 'Discovered and surprised.
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 215 - Fallacy of division;" the term which is first taken collectively being afterwards divided; and vice versa. The ordinary examples are such as these ; all the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles: ABC, is an angle of a triangle; therefore ABC, is equal to two right angles.
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.