Studies I have tried to carry forward the chief purpose of my Elementary Lessons in Logic, which purpose was the * of practical training in Logic. In the preface to those Lessons I said in 1870: The relations of propositions and the forms of argument present as precise a subject of instruction and as vigorous an exercise of thought, as the properties of geometrical figures or the rules of A lgebra. Yet every schoolboy is made to learn mathematical problems which he will never employ in after life, and is left in total ignorance of those simple principles and forms of reasoning which will enter into the thoughts of every hour. ... In my own classes I have constantly found that the working and solution of logical questions, the examination of arguments and the detection of fallacies, is a not less practicable and useful exercise of mind than is the performance of calculations and the solution of problems in a mathematical class. The considerable use which has been made of theE lementary Lessons seems to show that they meetan educational want of the present day.
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www.forgottenbooks.org Studies I have tried to carry forward the chief purpose of my Elementary Lessons in Logic, which purpose was the * of practical training in Logic. In the preface to those Lessons I said in 1870: The relations of propositions and the forms of argument present as precise a subject of instruction and as vigorous an exercise of thought, as the properties of geometrical figures or the rules of A lgebra. Yet every schoolboy is made to learn mathematical problems which he will never employ in after life, and is left in total ignorance of those simple principles and forms of reasoning which will enter into the thoughts of every hour. ... In my own classes I have constantly found that the working and solution of logical questions, the examination of arguments and the detection of fallacies, is a not less practicable and useful exercise of mind than is the performance of calculations and the solution of problems in a mathematical class. The considerable use which has been made of theE lementary Lessons seems to show that they meetan educational want of the present day.
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