ABSTRACT

As the author of this volume states, "the science of logic does not stand still." This book was intended to cover the advances made in the study of logic in the first half of the nineteenth century, during which time the author felt there to have been greater advances made than in the whole of the preceding period from the time of Aristotle. Advances which, in her eyes, were not present in contemporary text books. As such, this book offers a valuable insight into the progress of the subject, tracing this frenetic period in its development with a first-hand awareness of its documentary value.

part 1|226 pages

Part I

chapter 1|8 pages

Reflective Thinking in Ordinary Life

chapter 2|12 pages

Language

chapter 3|11 pages

Acquaintance and Description

chapter 4|24 pages

Propositions and their Constituents

chapter 6|22 pages

The Traditional Categorical Syllogism

chapter 8|24 pages

Symbols and Form

chapter 10|33 pages

The Generalization of Logic

chapter 11|14 pages

System and Order

chapter 12|17 pages

Inference and Implication

part 2|193 pages

Part II

chapter 13|15 pages

The Nature of Scientific Inquiry

chapter 14|14 pages

Induction: Enumeration and Analogy

chapter 15|34 pages

Causality

chapter 16|26 pages

Hypothesis

chapter 17|27 pages

Principles of Causal Determination

chapter 20|11 pages

The Nature of Scientific Theories

chapter 21|20 pages

The Problem of Induction

part 3|77 pages

Part III

chapter 22|21 pages

The Theory of Definition

chapter 23|22 pages

Abstraction and Generalization

chapter 24|11 pages

The Characteristics of Logical Thinking