Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Contributions to Encyclopedia Metropolitana, 1823-1826
Logic. Logic in the most extensive sense which it can with W propriety be made to bear, may be considered as the Science and also as the Art Of Reasoning. It investigates the principles on which argumentation is conducted, and furnishes rules to secure the mind from error in its deductions. Its most appropriate Office, however, is that Of instituting an analysis of the process of the mind in Reasoning and in this point of view it is, as has been stated, strictly a Science While considered in reference to the-practical rules above mentioned, it may be called the Art Of Reasoning. This distinction, as will hereafter appear, has been overlooked, or not Clearly pointed out by most writers on the subject, Logic having been in general regarded as merely an Art; and its claim to hold a place among the Sciences having been expressly denied.
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