A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationLongmans, Green, 1900 - 622 pages |
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... Logic , a book of great merit and value . Mr. Bain's view of the science is essentially the same with that taken in the present treatise , the differences of opinion being few and unimportant compared with the agreements ; and he has ...
... Logic , a book of great merit and value . Mr. Bain's view of the science is essentially the same with that taken in the present treatise , the differences of opinion being few and unimportant compared with the agreements ; and he has ...
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... Logic , and its relation CHAPTER IV . Of Trains of Reasoning , and Deduc-. PAGE 77 77 79 81 SEC . 2. Doctrine that it is the expression of a relation between the mean- ings of two names 3 . Doctrine that it consists in refer- ring ...
... Logic , and its relation CHAPTER IV . Of Trains of Reasoning , and Deduc-. PAGE 77 77 79 81 SEC . 2. Doctrine that it is the expression of a relation between the mean- ings of two names 3 . Doctrine that it consists in refer- ring ...
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... Logic to be the Science , as well as the Art , of reasoning ; meaning by the former term , the analysis of the mental process which takes place whenever we reason , and by the latter , the rules , grounded on that analysis , for ...
... Logic to be the Science , as well as the Art , of reasoning ; meaning by the former term , the analysis of the mental process which takes place whenever we reason , and by the latter , the rules , grounded on that analysis , for ...
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... logic is , what it was so expressively called by the schoolmen and by Bacon , ars artium ; the science of science itself . All science consists of data and conclu- sions from those data , of proofs and what they prove : now logic points ...
... logic is , what it was so expressively called by the schoolmen and by Bacon , ars artium ; the science of science itself . All science consists of data and conclu- sions from those data , of proofs and what they prove : now logic points ...
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... logic be- Logic as a Science is determined by comes the sovereign judge whether its necessities as an Art : whatever it its inferences are well grounded , or does not need for its practical ends , what other inferences would be so . it ...
... logic be- Logic as a Science is determined by comes the sovereign judge whether its necessities as an Art : whatever it its inferences are well grounded , or does not need for its practical ends , what other inferences would be so . it ...
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