An Elementary Handbook Of Logic

An Elementary Handbook of Logic

Excerpt from An Elementary Handbook of Logic The present volume makes no pretensions to being anything more than is implied in its title. It is elementary, and it is a handbook. Being elementary, it omits all the subtler questions which frequently find a place in extended treatises on Logic. Being a handbook, it is not designed for private study, but for use in the classroom. It does not attempt to provide a detailed explanation of the various topics as they come up for study. This has been left to the teacher, whose exposition of the doctrine would probably be embarrassed and rendered less effective if his pupils were confronted with long and unnecessary comments in the text. A special effort has been made to combine clearness with brevity, so that once the student has received the teacher's explanation, he may have a lucid epitome which will enable him to recall with facility all the essential principles of Logic. The volume departs in two particulars from the common method of treatment. First, a distinction has been drawn between the Act of Inference and the Process of Inference, and a separate chapter has been devoted to each. This will probably be found to simplify the explanation of Reasoning and to bring out the essential identity of form which underlies the various types of argument. Secondly, the hypothesis of the Distribution of the Predicate has been abandoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Elementary Handbook of Logic

An Elementary Handbook of Logic