Logic Made Familiar and Easy: To which is Added a Compendious System of Metaphysics Or Ontology : Being the Fifth Volume of The Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority |
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abfolute Affections affirmative alfo anfwer Argument arife becauſe better than Heaven Body Caufe Cauſes CHAP compofed Conclufion Confequent Confideration confidered confifting Copula Defign defire Difcourfe Difpute diftinct diftinguished diftributed Divifion Effence effential Euathlus Exiftence expreffed faid falfe fecond feems feve fhew fhould fignify fimple fince firft fition fome fomething fometimes ftance fuch fufficient fuppofed Genus gifm Horfe Ideas itſelf Judgment laft Logic Meaning meant Men are mortal mental Relations Metaphyfics Method Middle Term Miftakes Mind Modes moft moral moſt muſt Name Nature neceffary Neceffity neral Number obferved Objects ONTOLOGY Oppofites Paffion particular Perfons Philofophers poffible pofition Predicate prefent Prejudices Premiffes proper Properties Propo Propofitions Protagoras prove Queftion Reafon refpect Refpondent reprefents Rules Senfation Senfe Socratic Method Sophifm Sort Species Spirit Subftance Subject Syllo Syllogifm thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe tion true Truth ufed ufually univerfal uſed wherein whofe Whole Words
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Page 162 - It leads the learner into the knowledge of truth as it were by his own invention, which is a very pleasing thing to human nature ; and by questions pertinently and artificially proposed, it does as effectually draw him on to discover his own mistakes, which he is much more easily persuaded to relinquish when he seems to have discovered them himself.
Page 104 - 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. "These syllogisms admit two sorts of true argumentation, where the major is conditional.
Page 31 - Coaceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. 2. Conceive of things completely in all their parts. 3. Conceive of things comprehensively in all their properties and relations. 4. Conceive of things extensively in all their kinds. 5. Conceive of things orderly, or in a proper method.
Page 226 - Eflence or Nature of them into extended Beings, and making them quite other Things than they are. When we fay...
Page 113 - Apoftles, it cannot be proved from the Epiftles, nor the Book of Revelations > therefore it cannot be proved from the New Teftament.
Page 209 - Being can properly be the Caufe of itfelf: Yet a Fountain may be the Caufe of a River, tho...
Page 179 - Matter and Form. Matter is the folid extended Subftance which is common to all Bodies: The Form includes, and implies thofe peculiar Qualities both real and fenfible, which make any particular Body be what it is, and diftinguifh it from all other Bodies. Note, Shape or Figure, Size or Quantity, Situation or Place, together with Motion and...
Page 195 - Being is called free herein, tho' this Action be neceflary, and it cannot do otherwife. The Liberty of the Will is fometimes a Liberty of Choice and Indifference, a Freedom or Power to chufe or not to chufe among two or more Things propofed : So a Man chufes to fpeak or to be filent. This Freedom is inconfiftent...
Page 229 - Proportion portion bevveen fixtecn and twenty-four, for one is two thirds of the other : And fo there is between three fives and fifteen, for they are equal. Agreement in Shape or Figure is ufually called Similarity, fo two equilateral Triangles are fimilar Figures. Two or more Things may be faid to have the fame general...
Page 26 - And indeed any common Name is made proper, by the Addition of fome Term of a particular and determinate Meaning ; as this Houfe, that Garden, the prefent Emperor* fcfr.