...art. One of the ablest thinkers of the present day, JS Mill, has defined it as " the science of all the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence, or, more shortly, the science of evidence or proof.' ' This view, it will be seen, embraces a much...

...an art, derives all its strength, and growth, and certainty, from logic as a science. " Logic, then, is the science of the operations of the understanding,...of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary to this. It includes, therefore, the operation of Naming; for language...

...length in a preliminary discourse on the nature and province of logic ; which results in defining it, " The science of the operations of the understanding...of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary thereto." The elasticity of the latter clause allowed for, there...

...definition of it as understood by Mr. Mill, and it seems to us equally succinct, comprehensive, and just. " Logic is the science of the operations of the understanding...process itself of proceeding from known truths to [those] unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary to this." Of these " auxiliary operations,"...

...manner, logic as an art, derives all its strength, and growth, and certainty, from logic as a science. which are subservient to the estimation of evidence : both the process itself " Logic, then, is the science of the operations of the understanding, of proceeding from known truths...

...the objects of Intuition and those of Illation are never confounded. Logic is then defined to be, " The science of the operations of the understanding,...of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary thereto." To appreciate the pretensions of this definition to superior...

...the objects of Intuition and those of Illation are never confounded. Logic is then defined to be, " The science of the operations of the understanding,...of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary thereto." To appreciate the pretensions of this definition to superior...

...definition of it as understood by Mr. Mill, and it seems to us equally succinct, comprehensive, and just. " Logic is the science of the operations of the understanding...process itself of proceeding from known truths to [those] unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary to this." Of these " auxiliary operations,"...

...length in a preliminary discourse on the nature and province of logic ; which results in defining it, "The science of the operations of the understanding...of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual operations auxiliary thereto." The elasticity of the latter clause allowed for, there...

...somewhat into the various definitions of other authors, when in the seventh, section we are told that "logic is the science of the operations of the understanding, which are subservient to the estimate of evidence: both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all intellectual...