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Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic."
Outline of a New System of Logic With a Critical Examination of Dr Whately's Elements of Logic Author:George Bentham, René Descartes, Minos General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Original Publisher: Hunt and Clarke Subjects: Logic Mathematics / Logic Philosophy / Logic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this boo... more »k you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 11 CHAPTER II. DEFINITION OF LOGIC. In every treatise, whether for the purpose of elementary instruction, or for that of completing and methodizing the stock of knowledge already acquired, it is most important that the author should begin by distinctly stating his object and subject -- the end that he wishes to attain, and the subject-matter on which he purposes to work. By this mode of proceeding, the reader, having in view the same end as the author, is enabled to keep pace with him during the whole course of his progress, and the author himself is the better assured of not wandering from the paths which lead to that end. Thus, in these Elements of Logic, Dr. Whately sets out by a definition of the art-and-science he treats of, according to his ideas on the subject, together with a critical examination of the extent ascribed to it by former logicians. Though this definition be not given in that rigorous and precise manner which might have beenwished, yet the author's meaning, upon the whole, may be ascertained with tolerable clearness. He has in particular brought to view one very important fact, overlooked by all his predecessors, though so obvious, vhen once exhibited, as to make us wonder that it should not have been remarked : viz. that Logic is a science as well as an art. The universally prevailing error that human knowledge is divided into a number of parts, some of which are arts without science, and others sciences without art, has been fully exposed by Mr. Bentharn in his Chrestomathia. There ...« less