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McCosh, James

 
9781330195710: The Laws of Discursive Thought (Classic Reprint): Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic: Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Unlock the foundations of reasoning with a clear guide to formal logic. This edition presents the laws that govern discursive thought, from identity to the excluded middle, in plain language and practical examples. Ideal for students and curious readers alike, it helps you see how reasoning works step by step without getting lost in theory.

This book walks you through key principles that underlie everyday thinking, including how we form judgments, make inferences, and check our conclusions. It connects abstract ideas to concrete examples, making complex logic accessible and usable in study and daily life.


  • Clear explanations of fundamental laws like Identity, Contradiction, and Excluded Middle

  • Guidance on how these laws shape ordinary and hypothetical reasoning

  • Discussion of attribution, division, and the relation between wholes and parts

  • Practical exercises to recognize and apply logical structures in arguments



Ideal for readers who want a solid, hands-on introduction to logic and critical thinking.

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Excerpt from The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic

Kant's Critick of Pure Reason. Since that date, Logic has had a greater amount of interest collected round it in Great Britain than any other mental science, and has become incorporated with the fresh est and brightest thought of the country. The in terest in the study has been increased by the Logic of Mr. John Stuart Mill, who has evidently felt the in fluence of Whately in the respect which he pays to Formal Logic, but adheres, as a whole, to the prin ciples of his father, Mr. James Mill, introducing some elements from the cognate Positive Philosophy of M. Comte. Mr. Mill has given an impulse to the study, not by the portion of his work which treats of Formal Logic - which is not of much scientific value - but by his valuable exposition of the Logic of Induction, which would have been of much more value had he left out the constant defences of his empirical meta physics.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic

If we look back half a century we find Formal Logic taught in nearly all the colleges of Great Britain and America, but exercising an influence infinitely less than nothing (to use a phrase of Plato's) on the thought of the countries. Some of the professors and tutors were expounding it in a dry and technical manner, which wearied young men of spirit, and bred a distaste for the study; while others adopted an apologetic tone for occupying even a brief space with so antiquated a department, and threw out hints of a new Logic as about to appear and supersede the old. The lingering life maintained by that old Aristotelian and Scholastic Logic, in spite of the ridicule poured upon it by nearly all the fresh thinkers of Europe for two or three centuries after the revival of letters, is an extraordinary fact in the history of philosophy; I believe it can be accounted for only by supposing that the syllogism is substantially the correct analysis of the process which passes through the mind in reasoning.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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