Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, with Additions, & C |
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abstract Adam Smith admitted affirmed ambiguity animals Antecedent applied argument Aristotle ascertain assertion belong Cæsar called categorical categorical Propositions categorical Syllogisms Chap Christian Church circumstances common Common-term comprehended Conclusion consequently considered Copula course definition denied denote Discovery distinct division doctrine employed Enthymeme error Essay established evident existence expression fact Fallacy Fallacy of Division false falsity Genus gism hence Hypothetical ical ignoratio elenchi implied impossible individual Induction infer instance kind labor language Lect Logical writers logicians major Premiss Mathematics matter meaning ment merely middle-term mind miracles nature negative notion object observed paronymous particular perhaps persons petitio principii possess predicate principles probably properly proposition prove question Reasoning reference regarded religion remarked respecting rules ruminant Scripture sense signify sion sometimes Sorites speak Species suppose Syllogism syllogistic term Thaumatrope thing tion treatise true truth understood universally whole word
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Page 402 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 188 - Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected, and nauseated when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a Fallacy which when stated barely, in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world if diluted in a quarto volume.
Page 10 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational.
Page 29 - Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher sent from God : for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 386 - The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other, "value in exchange.
Page 105 - By which we prove (in the first Figure) not directly that the original Conclusion is true, but that it cannot be false; ie that an absurdity would follow from the supposition of its being false...
Page 224 - It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them ; but, on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.
Page 332 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 395 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 121 - If this man were wise, he would not speak irreverently of Scripture in jest ; and if he were good, he would not do so in earnest ; but he does it either in jest or earnest; therefore he is either not wise, or not good*.