Analysis of Aristotle's Logic, with RemarksWilliam Creech; and sold, 1806 - 149 pages |
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abſtract affirmed or denied affumed againſt alſo Analytics ancient Ariftotle's Ariſtotle axioms becauſe beſt called categorical propofitions cauſe claffes clufion conclufion confifts converfion definition demonſtration difpute diftinctions diſcover diſtinguiſh divifion Engliſh enumeration Euathlus exerciſe expreffed faid fallacious falſe fame fays fecond feems feven fhall fhould fhow fignification figure and mode fimple firft firſt figure firſt principles fition five predicables fome fophift fpecies fubftance fubject fuch fyftem fyllo fyllogifm genus gifm himſelf human underſtanding ignoratio elenchi itſelf juſt kind laft laſt lefs leſs logic logicians logifm middle term modal moft moſt muſt Novum Organum obferved Organon particular philofophical philoſophy poffible pofition predicate premiſes propo prove purpoſe queſtion reaſoning reſpect ſay ſcience SECT ſeem ſenſe ſhall ſome ſpecial rules ſpecies ſpecific difference ſpeech ſtudy ſubject ſubſtance ſuch ſyſtem thefe theſe thing thofe THOMAS REID thoſe thouſand tion topics treatife univerfal affirmative univerfal negative uſe words
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Page 83 - Ariftotle has taken the labour to try and condemn them one by one in all the three figures : but this is done in fuch a manner that it is very painful to follow him. To give a fpecimen.
Page 105 - The form lies in the neceffary connection between the premifes and the conclufion ; and where fuch a connection is wanting, they are faid to be informal, or vicious in point of form. But where there is no fault in the form, there may be in the matter ; that is, in the propofitions of which they are compofed, which may be true or falfe, probable or improbable.
Page 112 - ... reduce all the topics of argumentation under certain heads ; and by that means to collect as it were into one ftore all that can be faid on one fide or the other of every queftion, and...
Page 69 - The rules of converfion cannot be applied to all propofitions, but only to thofe that are categorical ; and we are left to the direction of common fenfe in the converfion of other propofitions. To give an example : Alexander was the fon of Philip ; therefore Philip was the father of Alexander : A is greater than B ; therefore B is lefs than A. Thefe are converfions which, as far as I know, do not fall within any rule in logic ; nor do we find any lofs for want of a rule in fuch cafes. Even in the...
Page 32 - Until fome more effectual remedy be found for the imperfection of divifions, I beg leave, to propofe one more fimple than, that of Ramus. It is this;: When you meet with a divifion of any fubjecT: imperfectly comprehended, add to the laft member an et cetera.
Page 1 - King's phyfician; twenty years a favourite fcholar of Plato, and tutor to Alexander the Great; who both honoured him with his friendfhip, and fupplied him with every thing neceflary for the profecution of his enquiries.
Page 41 - Locke, that nominal essences only, which are the creatures of our own minds, are perfectly comprehended by us, or can be properly defined ; and even of these there are many too simple in their nature to admit of definition. When we cannot give precision to our notions by a definition, we must endeavour to do it by attentive reflection upon them, by observing minutely their agreements and differences, and...
Page 27 - ... whoever he was. Nor does it appear, that the general divifions which, fince the decline of the Peripatetic tic philofophy, have been fubftituted in place of the ten categories, are more perfect.
Page 125 - ... it properly. Without fuch exercife, and good fenfe over and above, a man who has ftudied logic all his life may. after all, be only a petulant wrangler, without true judgment or fkill of reafoning in any fcience.
Page 2 - ... for fame than for truth, and to have wanted rather to be admired as the prince of...