Logic: The Theory of Enquiry

Table of Contents: PART I. Introduction -- 1.) The problem of logical subject-matter -- 2.) The existential matrix of inquiry : biological -- 3.) The existential matrix of inquiry : cultural -- 4.) Common sense and scientific inquiry -- 5.) The needed reform of logic ------------ PART II. The structure of inquiry and the construction of judgments -- 6.) The pattern of inquiry -- 7.) The construction of judgment -- 8.) Immediate knowledge : understanding and inference -- 9.) Judgments of practice : evaluation -- 10.) Affirmation and negation : judgment as requalification -- 11.) The function of propositions of quantity in judgment -- 12.) Judgment as spatial-temporal determination : narration-description -- 13.) The continuum of judgment : general propositions -- 14.) Generic and universal propositions ------------ PART III. Propositions and terms -- 15.) General theory of propositions -- 16.) Propositions ordered in sets and series -- 17.) Formal functions and canons -- 18.) Terms or meanings ------------ PART IV. The logic of scientific method -- 19.) Logic and natural science : form and matter -- 20.) Mathematical discourse -- 21.) Scientific method : induction and deduction -- 22.) Scientific laws : causation and sequences -- 23.) Scientific method and scientific subject-matter -- 24.) Social inquiry -- 25.) The logic of inquiry and philosophies of knowledge. . . . . . . . . . This book is a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented ... in Studies in logical theory; that were somewhat expanded in Essays in experimental logic and were briefly summarized with special reference to education in How we think. -- Preface.