 Logic is both a science and an art ; it is a science inasmuch as, by analyzing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their truth or detect their fallacies, and point out the sources of such errors. It is an...  The elements of deductive logic - Page 5by Thomas Fowler - 1867 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 598 pages
...believing that this author had his predecessor's definition (which we shall quote) immediately in view. ' Logic is both a science and an art ; it is a science inasmuch as, by analysing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 pages
...reasoning, hut because his time has been principally devoted to other pursuits. Logick, p. 1. — " Logick is both a science and an art; it is a science inasmuch as by analysing the elements," &c. This is the commencement of the very first sentence in the work: I... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...believing that this author had his predecessor's definition (which we shall quote) immediately in view. " Logic is both a science and an art ; it is a science inasmuch as, by analysing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 828 pages
...believing that this author had his predecessor's definition (which we shall quote) immediately in view. " Logic is both a science and an art ; it is a science inasmuch as, by analyzing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 698 pages
...secure the mind from error in its deductions, it may be called the art of reasoning." Kirwan1 has said, "Logic is both a science and an art; it is a science inasmuch as, by analyzing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1861 - 816 pages
...believing that this author had his predecessor's definition (which we shall quote) immediately in view. " Logic is both a science and an art ; it is a science inasmuch as, by analyzing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...principal mode of investigation. I am inclined to think that Whately is right when he represents Logic as both a Science and an Art. It is a science, inasmuch as it is a systematized body of natural truth. It is reared by the observation and coordination of the spontaneous... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1881 - 1080 pages
...secure the mind from error in its deductions, it may be called the art of reasoning." Kirwan 1 has said, "Logic is both a science and an art; it is a science inasmuch as, by analyzing the elements, principles, and structure of arguments, it teaches us how to discover their... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Induction (Logic) - 1895 - 620 pages
...phenomena are traceable, it would have been beside my purpose to have noticed it in the text. Note 3. — I have employed the expression ' act or operation,'...and to avoid them in our own. Logic may therefore be defined as the science of the conditions on which correct thoughts depend, and the art of attaining... | |
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