The Substitution of Similars: The True Principle of Reasoning, Derived from a Modification of Aristotle's Dictum |
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... mind during the last few years . All acts of reasoning seem to me to be different cases of one uniform process , which may perhaps be best described as the substitution of similars . This phrase clearly expresses that familiar mode in ...
... mind during the last few years . All acts of reasoning seem to me to be different cases of one uniform process , which may perhaps be best described as the substitution of similars . This phrase clearly expresses that familiar mode in ...
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... as a dead science . Logic is the science of the laws of thought itself , and there is no sphere of observation and reflection which is more peculiarly open to any inquirer , than B the inquirer's own mind as engaged in the process of.
... as a dead science . Logic is the science of the laws of thought itself , and there is no sphere of observation and reflection which is more peculiarly open to any inquirer , than B the inquirer's own mind as engaged in the process of.
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... mind as engaged in the process of reasoning . It is from reflection on the opera- tions of his own mind that Aristotle must have drawn the materials of his memorable Analytics . But Bentham's mind , as he himself remarked , was equally ...
... mind as engaged in the process of reasoning . It is from reflection on the opera- tions of his own mind that Aristotle must have drawn the materials of his memorable Analytics . But Bentham's mind , as he himself remarked , was equally ...
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... mind . We have before us an abundance of examples of the modes in which solid and undoubted truths may be attained , and it is absurd to suppose that among such successful exertions of the human intellect we can find no materials for a ...
... mind . We have before us an abundance of examples of the modes in which solid and undoubted truths may be attained , and it is absurd to suppose that among such successful exertions of the human intellect we can find no materials for a ...
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... mind , and his customary studies , that no reader would at first suppose the same subject to be treated by all . Yet they treat of the same science , and , with the exception of Mr. Mill , they start from almost the same discovery in ...
... mind , and his customary studies , that no reader would at first suppose the same subject to be treated by all . Yet they treat of the same science , and , with the exception of Mr. Mill , they start from almost the same discovery in ...
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