ISBN: 9780217088541

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrat… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Missionary to the Indians at Stockbridge, we get by reasoning the Conclusion that the Missionary to the Indians at Stockbridge, was the greatest American metaphysician. 120. II. The Law Of Contradiction. This law is it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time. Or bringing out a farther aspect of the same truth, it may take the form: A thing cannot have, and not have, the same attribute at the same time. It rules in all cases in which we get a negative proposition from a negative proposition by implication, or from negative propositions by reasoning, as when it is given us that, Francis Bacon is not the same as Roger Bacon, we say that Roger Bacon was not the same as Francis Bacon, or, with another proposition allowed, that Francis Bacon was the expounder of the Inductive Method, so Boger Bacon was not the expounder of the Inductive Method. 121. III. The Law Of Excluded Middle, Lex Exclusi Tertii aut Medii; that is, either a given judgment is true, or its contradictory--there is no middle course or third supposition. Thus it must either be true or not true that God exists ; and it must either be true or false that this man was ignorant of the deed; and if it can be shown that he was not ignorant of it, you cannot look upon him as if he was ignorant. 122. IV. The Principle Of Equality, things which are equal to the same things, are equal to one another. It is thus we argue that 2 +2 = 4; and 2 x 2 = 4; therefore 2 + 2 = 2x2. In all cases in which the propositions are Equivalent (P. II., SS 14), these are the sole regulating principles. But where the propositions imply Extension and Comprehension, other Laws come in and act along with these. 123. V. The Dictum Of Aristotle, whatever is predi* cated of a Class... James Mccosh, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Laws Of Discursive Thought; Being A Text-book Of Formal Logic Books>Religion and Spirituality This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: R.Carter & brothers in 1876 in 250 pages; Subjects: Logic; Thought and thinking; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Logic;<

ISBN: 9780217088541

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: our… Mehr…

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: our modern physical inquirers escaped the tendency, for they speak of nature, force, gravity, motion, as if they were entities, acting independently of the objects whose action and mode of action they express. 14. Corollary-It is of great importance to trace up abstractions to the concrete Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: our modern physical inquirers escaped the tendency, for they speak of nature, force, gravity, motion, as if they were entities, acting independently of the objects whose action and mode of action they express. 14. Corollary-It is of great importance to trace up abstractions to the concrete objects from which they are derived. We should thus be saved from the two opposite errors iuto which we are apt to fall: the error of thoso who regard abstractions as nonentities, and that of those who give them a distinct being. By following them up to the substances, whether mental or material, from which they are taken, we shall see that they have a reality, and we shall find what is the nature of that reality. Gravitation has no reality distinct from matter, but it has a reality in the stars and planets which it holds in their spheres. Nature is not a separate agency, but is a name for the combined system of things falling under our view in the world. Beauty is a reality, as our esthetic sentiments testify; but has no embodiment except in some beautiful object, though the foolish laudations of some might lead us to think that she has a personality of her own, which she may one day or other reveal to some enraptured boy-poet, or painter, provided he could rise to a sufficiently ecstatic state. Virtue has no separate existence in some ethereal sphere, as we might be tempted to think by the way in which some speak of it; but it has a reality in the voluntary acts of beings possessed of intelligence, conscience and free will. The Alexandrian mystics recommended us to rise to the contemplation of the One and the Good: all very useful and important, we say, provided we seek for it, where alone we can find it, in the One Living and Good God. 13. We cannot close the subject Books, Philosophy~~Logic, The-Laws-of-Discursive-Thought~~James-McCosh, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<