A Short Introduction to the Study of Logic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Laurence Johnstone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330020936 ISBN 13: 9781330020937

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Short Introduction to the Study of Logic

This is only another way Of putting the Scholastic division of Logic into Formal and Material; Formal Logic or Dialectics answering to the act Of the agent (see definitions at p. 10, et seq., referred to at p. 17) Material Logic, to the end Of the act. And, as Truth is something else besides the end Of the act Of reasoning, as it can be gained in other ways, and is manifested bylaws outside our minds,-and as Material Logic has Truth for its matter, it follows that these laws must fall within the scope Of this Material Logic. In this division a knowledge Of the agent of the act is presupposed.

A distinction is Often made between Natural and Artificial Logic, Natural Logic means the natural reasoning that leads men to Truth, or that would do so, if it were possible for them always to follow the light Of reason. Artificial Logic may be briefly called the science of Natural Logic, for it does no more than give an exact and methodical Shape to the rules delivered by nature; just as in music, or painting, or sculpture, the technicalities Of the art merely throw natural rules into order and method.

And, as the art-student naturally acquires delicacy Of perception in all that concerns his art; so does the study Of Logic give delicacy Of intellectual touch to distinguish Truth, and a peculiar power Of dis cerning Truth, and Of unmasking error when it lurks under the guise Of Truth.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330020936
• ISBN 13: 9781330020937
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 262