The Application of LogicMacmillan and Company, limited, 1910 - 321 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
actual admit ambiguous middle analogy answer application argument arise assertion assertor assume assumption axiom begging begging the question called causal cause claim class-name clear clumsy common sense complex conclusion confusion context defect defence definition deny depends descriptive difference difficulty discovered dispute distinction doubt effect enquiry error of fact example exist experiment explain expression fallacy false false analogy formal logic given happens imagine important inductive logic inference instance interpretation irrelevant kind knowledge Law of Identity less logical doctrine major premiss ment merely method Method of Difference middle term Mill's Method misleading nature never noticed notion objector observation occasion old logic opponent opponent's particular parties possible precisely predicate purpose questions of fact quibbler reason recognise referred regard rule simple statement supposed syllogism syllogistic thing tion true truth undeniable unimportant vagueness verbal Wage-Fund whole word
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Page 5 - ... to which they ought to conform ; and they naturally conclude that we have only got to reason more and to reason better, in order speedily to perfect the whole machinery by which human felicity is to be secured. Surely this is a great delusion. A community founded upon argument would soon be a community no longer. It would dissolve into its constituent elements. Think of the thousand ties most subtly woven out of common sentiments, common tastes, common beliefs, nay, common prejudices, by which...
Page 97 - Our minds grow in spots ; and like grease spots the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible ; we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in ; it stains the ancient mass ; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
Page 174 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Page 175 - be meant that a man may do what he likes with his own property...
Page v - This book," says the writer in the preface, " attempts to state with a minimum of technicality the logical doctrines that remain when we discard those parts of the traditional logic which are misleading in application.