Letters on Reasoning (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters on Reasoning That the scholastic logic all the while has been a lame educational instrument is practically admitted by nearly every notable author of a logical treatise. Whately, who was credited by Hamilton and Mill with reviving the study of logic in England, did so, if at all, by making it speak in a measure the language of real life, while retaining the formulas and processes of the abhorred pedantic sanhedrim. With modem or rediscovered improvements in that method, such as the quantification of the predicate - a small mercy for which the thanks have been suggestively cordial - we are not here concerned: they are part of the anatomic study which is so commonly recognised to fail in developing or refining men's reasoning habits. John Stuart Mill hand somely prefixed to his brilliant System of Logic, as motto, the claim Of his chosen foe, Hamilton, that to the school men the vulgar languages are principally indebted for what precision and analytic subtlety they possess, as well as the less sweeping Claim made for scholasticism by Condorcet. Those Claims may be just, though Condillac says the exact opposite but nonetheless Mill sought to vivify his handling of scholastic logic by founding it in psychology and quad rating it with the processes of science. 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.