Lectures on Logic: Or on the Science of Evidence Generally, Embracing Both Demonstrative and Probable Reasonings, with the Doctrine of CausationJ.H. Parker, 1838 - 192 עמודים |
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admit allege analogy animals appear argu argument argument from authority Aristotelians Aristotle ascertained assertion astronomer Atheism authority Bacon believe bias called causation cerning character common conclusion Copula credulous definition divine doctrine of Chances effect equally error essence evidence exist experience fact fallacy false final causes follow former Genus gism give Greeks Hence Herodotus historian human hypothesis important individual Induction infer inquiry invented knowledge laws Livy Logic Logicians mean ment mind moral motion motives Natural Philosophy nature negative numerous observed particular peculiarities perhaps person phenomena philosophers physical premisses presumption principle probably produce proof properties proposition proved question reason refutation religion remark result rhetorical Induction scholastic Logic Schoolmen seems sense sometimes sophism sort speak Species Specific Difference supposed Syllogism syllogistic form tell term testimony theory thing thought tion topic tortoise true universal veracity verbal truth verified witness word
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עמוד 77 - ... the Baconian philosophy, but his keen perception, and his broad and spirit-stirring, almost enthusiastic, announcement of its paramount importance, as the alpha and omega of science, as the grand and only chain for the linking together of physical truths, and the eventual key to every discovery and every application.
עמוד 143 - We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
עמוד 159 - Hindu cosmogony, the world is described as a lotus flower floating in a shallow vessel which rests on the back of an elephant, and the elephant on the back of a tortoise.
עמוד 40 - S o P' are said to be contradictories, ie if one is true the other is false, and if one is false the other is true; we can express this by 'S a P s ~(S o P)'. The same relation (contradiction) holds between 'S e P' and 'S i P'. Finally, 'S i P
עמוד 49 - Why treason never prospers what's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
עמוד 178 - The discrepancies which appear elsewhere between the Epistles of St. Paul and the Acts of the Apostles...
עמוד 136 - I regret to say, that I have not been able to satisfy myself that he is still numbered with the living. I may also add, that this is the opinion of his regiment.
עמוד 16 - I conceive it is a part of Logic to inquire, both why we believe our senses, and why we believe human testimony; in each avoiding to go so deep as to write on Physiology or Ethics.
עמוד 61 - But surely his business was to reduce it to such form, and to show us that, when reduced, it offended some of the Aristotelic rules. He mistakes it for a logical fallacy, whereas it is extralogical, depending on a false premiss suppressed, which it is the business of the logician to bring to light, and of the mathematician to confute.
עמוד 51 - The same causes under the same circumstances uniformly produce the same effects.