Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life as Well as in the Sciences |
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... practice ; and fome of these mistakes may prove fatal too . The art of logic , even as it affifts us to gain the knowledge of the fciences , leads us on towards virtue and happinefs ; for all our fpeculative acquaintance with things ...
... practice ; and fome of these mistakes may prove fatal too . The art of logic , even as it affifts us to gain the knowledge of the fciences , leads us on towards virtue and happinefs ; for all our fpeculative acquaintance with things ...
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... practice alfo will furnish you with a variety of words and copious language , to exprefs your thoughts- upon all occafions . 3. Commit to writing fome of the most confiderable improvements which you daily make , at least fuch hints G. 2 ...
... practice alfo will furnish you with a variety of words and copious language , to exprefs your thoughts- upon all occafions . 3. Commit to writing fome of the most confiderable improvements which you daily make , at least fuch hints G. 2 ...
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... practice , to say , I fhall fpoil my book ; for I perfuade myself , that you did not buy it as a bookfeller , to fell it again for gain , but as a fcholar to improve your mind by it ; and if the mind be improved , your advantage is ...
... practice , to say , I fhall fpoil my book ; for I perfuade myself , that you did not buy it as a bookfeller , to fell it again for gain , but as a fcholar to improve your mind by it ; and if the mind be improved , your advantage is ...
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... practice . Direct . II . Do not fuppofe that the natures or effences of things always differ from one another , as much as their names do . There are various purposes in human life , for which we put very different names on the same ...
... practice . Direct . II . Do not fuppofe that the natures or effences of things always differ from one another , as much as their names do . There are various purposes in human life , for which we put very different names on the same ...
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... practice on the other hand , to put new favourable names upon ill ideas , on purpose to take off the odium of them . But notwithstanding all these flattering names and titles a man of profufe gene- rofity is but a fpendthrift ; a ...
... practice on the other hand , to put new favourable names upon ill ideas , on purpose to take off the odium of them . But notwithstanding all these flattering names and titles a man of profufe gene- rofity is but a fpendthrift ; a ...
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affent affiftance affirmative alfo alſo animal argument arife becauſe believe belong body cafes called caufe cauſe chriftian clear and diftinct compofed conclufion confider copula defign definition difcourfe diftinguish diftribution divifion divine effence effential evidence exprefs extenfion faid falfe falſe fame fcience fcripture fearch feem fenfation fenfe fenſe fentiments feveral fhall fhape fhew fhould fide fignify fimple fince fingle firft folid fome fometimes foul fpecies fpirit fprings fubftance fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fyllo fyllogifms genus himſelf ideas inftance itſelf judge judgment juft juſt learned lefs logic matter middle term mind miſtakes modes moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary obfcure Obferv objects occafion ontology ourſelves paffion particular perfons philofophers poffible pofitive predicate prefent prejudices properties propofition reafon religion reprefents rules SECT ſenſe ſeveral ſpeak ſuch teftimony thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion true truth underſtand univerfal uſe whatſoever wherein whofe words
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Page 152 - Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective. Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it. The one is in things, the other is in our minds.
Page 69 - TC'URNISH yourself ^with a rich variety £• of ideas ; acquaint yourselves with things ancient and modern; things natural, civil and religious ; things domestic a'nd national ; things of your native land, and of foreign countries ; things present, past, and future...
Page 247 - When the consequent is contradicted in the minor proposition, that the antecedent may be contradicted in the conclusion : as, If atheists are in the right, then the world exists without a cause; but the world does not exist without a cause ; therefore, atheists...
Page 9 - Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellowcreatures, the brutes, in this lower world."—L. Introduction. I have before showed an error in the first sentence of Doctor Watts's work. This is the second sentence. The words,
Page 72 - To shorten something of this labor, if the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen, or pencil, the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Thus you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted...
Page 12 - Judgment is that operation of the mind, wherein we join two or more ideas together by one affirmation or negation : that is, we either affirm or deny this to be that. So this tree is high ; that...
Page 247 - The conditional or hypothetical syllogism, is that whose major or minor, or both, are conditional propositions ; as, If there be a God, the world is governed by Providence ; but there is a God ; therefore the world is governed by Providence.
Page 70 - ... other cities and countries when you have seen your own, under the care of one who can teach you to profit by travelling, and to make wise...
Page 245 - Therefore, the nurse came not to the consultation. 555. (III.) Or comparative propositions ; as, Knowledge is better than riches ; Virtue is better than knowledge ; Therefore, virtue is better than riches. Or thus : A dove will fly a mile in a minute ; A swallow flies swifter than a dove ; Therefore, a swallow will fly more than a mile in a minute.
Page 72 - I persuade myself, that you did not buy it- as a bookseller, to sell it again for gain, but as a scholar to improve your mind by it ; and if the mind be improved, your advantage is .abundant, though your book yields les.s mopey to your executors.