Elements Of Logic: Comprising The Substance Of The Article In The Encyclopedia Metropolitana

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Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana

Richard Whately

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

Elements Of Logic

Elements of Logic

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Christian Evidences

History

HardPress Limited

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...that, although the animals themselves are, in some sort, agents, they could not originally have designed the effects they produced, but that even afterwards they have no notion of the combination by which these are brought about. But when human conduct tends to some desirable end, and the agents are competent to perceive that the end is desirable, and the means well adapted to it, they are apt to forget that, in the great majority of instances, those means were not devised, nor those ends proposed, by the persons themselves who are thus employed. The workman, for instance, who is employed in casting printing-types, is usually thinking only of producing a commodity by the sale of which he may support himself; with reference to this object, he is acting, not from any impulse that is at all of the character of instinct, but from a rational and deliberate choice: but he is also, in the very same act, contributing most powerfully to the diffusion of knowledge; about which, perhaps, he has no anxiety or thought; in reference to this latter object, therefore, his procedure corresponds to those operations of various animals which we attribute to instinct; since they, doubtless, derive some immediate gratification from what they are doing. Indeed, in all departments connected with the acquisition and communication of knowledge, a similar procedure may be traced. The greater part of it is the gift, not of human, but of divine benevolence, which has implanted in Man a thirst after knowledge for its own sake, accompanied with a sort of instinctive desire, founded probably on sympathy, of communicating it to others as an ultimate end. This, and also the love of display, are no doubt inferior motives, and will be superseded by a higher principle, in proportion...

Bacon's Essays with Annotations by Richard Whately (Essay Index Reprint Series)

Literature & Fiction

Francis, Bacon

Contemporary

Books For Libraries Press

Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This classical text was once dismissed as a mere reaffirmation of Aristotle's doctrine of syllogistic reasoning, standing in opposition to the new logic of scientific induction that dominated the modern era of logic and rhetoric. Yet today Elements of Logic again offers a number of useful principles for teaching reasoning and critical thinking to undergraduates, helping them to understand that common reasoning patterns are a constant across subjects and contexts. As the linear reasoning patterns of the inductive scientific method are fading, students are constantly exposed to, and seek out, information that comes in short bursts and is dominated by visual and aural stimuli. Those who must create new models of reasoning to fit ever-evolving forms of electronic media may find guidance and inspiration in Whately's work.

Elements of Logic (Key Titles in Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debate)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Intl Debate Education Assn

First published in 1928 and revised and expanded for over 30 years, this practical application of logic and rhetoric serves as the theoretical centerpiece for every contemporary textbook on argumentation.

Lements of Rhetoric (Revised)

Central European University Press

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