Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... CONCLUDING REMARKS. In the preceding summary, an attempt has been made to state and explain those rules of intellectual discipline, which may guide and improve the reasoning faculties. As the work is intended to be strictly elementary, general principles only have been given, with such plain examples, as might limit and illustrate their meaning. The following remarks are subjoined for the use of those, who may wish to extend their inquiries on the subject of logick, and the philosophy of the human mind. Dr. Reid's analysis of Aristotle's Logick contains a brief but comprehensive exposition of the syllogistick system. A more full account of the categories, together with the various laws of syllogistick reasoning, may be found in the logical treatises of Burgersdicius and of Le Clerc. Of modern systems of logick, those of Watts and of Duncan have been most approved. A more recent and valuable treatise, than either of these, is that of Kirwan. It is essential to accurate reasoning to distinguish those first principles of human knowledge, which must be taken for granted, from those propositions, which require proof. On this subject the treatise of Father Buffier, entitled First Truths, Beattie's Essay on Truth, and Condillac on the Origin of Knowledge, are valuable sources of information. The Novum Organum of Lord Bacon contains in a small compass those rules of inductive logick, which have been followed with the happiest success, both in physical researches, and in the philosophy of the mind. On the subject of moral reasoning, important information may be derived from Gambier's Introduction to Moral Evidence, and from the first book of Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetorick. For the general direction of the mind, in its researches after truth, ..
