 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...was introduced in the fourth edition, taking the place of a single sentence in the previous editions. means of knowledge, it will follow that before Aristotle there was not one man that did or could know anything by reason ; and that, since the invention of syllogisms, there is not one of ten thousand... | |
 | William George De Burgh - Civilization - 1924 - 494 pages
...Aristotle was the real founder of logic, not in the sense of John Locke's celebrated epigram that " God has not been so sparing to men, to make them barely two-legged animals, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational," 1 but in that, building always on Plato's... | |
 | Morris Raphael Cohen, Morris R. Cohen, Ernest Nagel - Philosophy - 1993 - 306 pages
...Understanding, Locke comments as follows upon the value of the study of formal logic: "If syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and...Aristotle, there was not one man that did or could know anything by reason; and that, since the invention of syllogisms, there is not one of ten thousand that... | |
 | George Englebretsen - Philosophy - 1996 - 274 pages
...Gaukroger (1989) and in Clarke (1981). 25 For example, Locke (1924: 346-7) writes, "If syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and...Aristotle there was not one man that did or could know anything by reason; and that, since the invention of syllogisms, there is not one often thousand that... | |
 | Edward Grant - Education - 2001 - 412 pages
...invented in his Prior Analytics, was unnecessary for reasoning. He explains that [i] f Syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and...Aristotle there was not one Man that did or could know anything by Reason; and that since the invention of Syllogisms, there is not one of Ten Thousand that... | |
 | John Locke - Political Science - 2003 - 378 pages
...never heard of a syllogism, nor can reduce any one argument to those forms.'"'2 God, Locke insists, has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, leaving it to Aristotle to make them rational. . . . He has given them a mind that can reason, without... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - Philosophy - 1996 - 954 pages
...be able to say in what the logical connection consists, but only that there is a logical connection: "God has not been so sparing to Men to make them barely two-leg'd Creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them Rational"; and a man's belief in the conclusion... | |
 | Brand Blanshard - Philosophy - 2002 - 512 pages
...nature may be last in order of recognition; and he would certainly have agreed with Locke's remark that 'God has not been so sparing to men, to make them barely twolegged animals, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational'. But while rational practice may be developed... | |
 | Leslie Smith, Jacques Vonèche - Psychology - 2006 - 247 pages
...[is] not the great instrument of reason ... if syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument and means of knowledge; it will follow, that before Aristotle there was no man that did or could know anything by reason; and that since the invention of syllogisms there... | |
 | Martin Wurzinger - Science - 2007 - 520 pages
...Locke to declare that it doesn't need a syllogism for us to be able to reason: If Syllogisms must be taken for the only proper instrument of reason and...Syllogisms, there is not one of Ten Thousand that doth. [41] To show how strong some attractions in the forming of associations are, consider the content of... | |
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... taken for the only proper instrument of reason and means of knowledge ; it will follow, that before Aristotle there was not one man that did or could know... 
