An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic

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Sheldon, 1863 - Logic - 345 pages
 

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Page 31 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low, — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 48 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 31 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, 'and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 179 - All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal " — mortal, the major term, is more extensive than Socrates, the minor ; for, in mortal,, we include Socrates and all other men. But in negative inference it is impossible to ascertain the comparative extent of the terms. If the conclusion were
Page 189 - Dictum de exemplo, — that two Terms which contain a common part partly agree ; or, if one contains a part which the other does not, they partly differ.
Page 113 - ... &c. Yet many of these circumstances (which are separable accidents, and consequently) which are regarded as non-essential to the individual, are quite disregarded by us ; and we abstract from them what we consider as essential ; thus forming an abstract notion of the Individual. Yet there is here no generalization.
Page 29 - ... gestures that indicate the feelings, even painting and sculpture, together with those contrivances which replace speech in situations where it cannot be employed, — the telegraph, the trumpet-call, the emblem, the hieroglyphic. * For the present, however, we may limit it to its most obvious signification ; it is a system of articulate words adopted by convention, to represent outwardly the internal process of thinking.
Page 23 - ... luxuries which are above their own reach ; by the religious mind, under the form of a person with more than ordinary temptations to contend with ; by the political economist, under that of an example of the unequal distribution of wealth ; by the tradesman, under that of one whose patronage is valuable. Now the object is really the same to all these observers ; the same " rich man " has been represented under all these different forms.
Page 292 - ... similarities only this consolatory conviction that in philosophy also there is a certain amount of truth which forms the common heirloom of all mankind, and may be discovered by all nations if they search for it with honesty and perseverance.
Page 15 - Ulrici have since founded upon them. No : the man of science possesses principles, but the artist, not the less nobly gifted on that account, is possessed and carried away by them. " The principles which Art involves, science evolves. The truths on which the success of Art depends, lurk in the artist's mind in an undeveloped state, — guiding his hand, stimulating his invention, balancing his judgment, but not appearing in the form of enunciated propositions." * And because the artist cannot always...

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