 Whately says that the object of reasoning is " merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it were, and implied in those with which we set out, and to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted...  An introduction to mental philosophy - Page 252by sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853Full view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...asserted in them. When Archhishop Whately, for example, says that the ohject of reasoning is ' merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...and implied in those with which we set out, and to hring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted,' he does not,... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...reasoning powers. " The object of all reasoning," as stated by a very acute Logician,1 " is merely" to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...were, and implied in those with which we set out," in other words, it is to convince a person, that the thing to be proved is a legitimate consequence... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...obtained a more correct -view of the object of all reasoning ; i kick is merely to expand ami unfold the a Assertions wrapt up, as it were, and implied in those with which we set out, and t ) bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted ; to contemplate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 624 pages
...asserted in them. When Archbishop Whately, for example, says,* that the object of reasoning is "merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it were, and implied in those with which wo set out, and to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted,"... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - Logic - 1848 - 490 pages
...length, he would have obtained a more correct view of the object of all Reasoning ; which is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...implied in those with which we set out, and to bring a personto perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted ; — to contemplate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...example, says,* that the object of reasoning is " merely to expand and un* Logic, p. 239 (9th ed.) fold the assertions wrapt up, as it were, and implied in...acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted," he does not, I think, meet the real difficulty requiring to be explained, namely, how it happens that... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 144 pages
...length, he would have obtained a more correct view of the object of all Reasoning, which is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the fuE force of that which he has admitted,—to contemplate it in various points of view,—to admit... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1852 - 500 pages
...length, he would have obtained a more correct view of the object of all Reasoning ; which is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...and to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge * Which Dugald Stewart admits, though he adopts Campbell's objection. the full force of that which... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1858 - 410 pages
...length, he would have obtained a more correct view of the object of all reasoning ; which is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...full force of that which he has admitted ; — to con tern plate it in various points oi view;— to admit in one shape what he has already admitted... | |
 | William Lee - Bible - 1858 - 484 pages
...Thus Archbishop Whately ("Logic," 9th ed, p. 239), states that "the object of all Reasoning is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted." Mr. JS Mill illustrates as follows, the nature of his objections to this theory: " I do not say that... | |
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