The Elements of Deductive Logic: Designed Mainly for the Use of Junior Students in the Universities

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Clarendon Press, 1867 - Logic - 149 pages
 

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Page 115 - If A is B, C is D ; and if E is F, G is H ; But either C is not D, or G is not H ; Therefore either A is not B, or E is not F.
Page 137 - to allow every man an unbounded freedom of speech must always be, on the whole, advantageous to the State ; for it is highly conducive to the interests of the Community, that each individual should enjoy a liberty perfectly unlimited, of expressing his sentiments.
Page 62 - Thus, for" example, he to whom the geometrical proposition, that the angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles...
Page 158 - In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Page 132 - ... which, as already noticed, is one case of the fallacy of ambiguous terms. Thus to argue, because there are certain points of resemblance between the development of the individual and the development of the race, that, therefore, since the individual dies, the race will probably die also, or, because there are certain points of resemblance between the earth and the other planets, that, therefore, the other planets are certainly, or very probably, inhabited, would both be instances of false analogy,...

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