An Introduction to Logic

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About the Book The book is about the logic and talks about various aspects of it such as general character of the enquiry, terms and their principal distinctions, the predicable’s, intension and extension of terms, proposition of judgment, various forms of judgment, immediate inferences, syllogism, moods and figures of syllogism, hypothetical and distinction reasoning, sorties and dilemma, induction, the law of causation, causes and effects, non reciprocating causal relations, simple enumeration, argument from analogy, mathematical reasoning, methodology of the sciences, etc.

This book will prove to be very useful for the people interested in logic as well as the students of Logic.

Preface If apology that precedes could mitigate an offence, I should be inclined convert preface into for publishing this book. and hope progress, in logical have lain during last three generations chiefly directions, either analyzing more closely the processes of exhibited in sciences, or of determining what knowledge is, and relation of knowing mind to it knows. Though have compelled degree with the first these questions, well aware that demands scientific not possess; second have not systematically to discuss. The of the following book is modest. There body what might be called traditional doctrine Logic, which not only fact used itself instrument intellectual discipline, but ought some degree mastered those would proceed the higher and abstruse problems. doctrine that Benjamin Jowett have that Logic neither a science, nor but dodge. I could perhaps describe the motive which this work was begun, as desire to expound the traditional Logic way that did deserve this accusation. The accusation was doubtless provoked by attempt force into limited number of forms processes thought, many which with violence made may added, least characteristic 'Inductive Logic' as of any other.

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