Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples, and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms |
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... objects and ideas treated in the natural and experimental sciences ; and in this and other respects have aimed at rendering these Lessons a suitable companion to a series of science school- books . Logic is not only an exact science , but ...
... objects and ideas treated in the natural and experimental sciences ; and in this and other respects have aimed at rendering these Lessons a suitable companion to a series of science school- books . Logic is not only an exact science , but ...
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... and can be altered by them . Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science . The science I LESSON > DEFINITION and Sphere of the Science.
... and can be altered by them . Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science . The science I LESSON > DEFINITION and Sphere of the Science.
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... objects treated in the Science . The science of astronomy investigates the uniform or similar way in which the heavenly bodies , and in fact all material sub- stances , tend to fall towards each other as a stone falls towards the earth ...
... objects treated in the Science . The science of astronomy investigates the uniform or similar way in which the heavenly bodies , and in fact all material sub- stances , tend to fall towards each other as a stone falls towards the earth ...
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... objects ? The simplest and truest answer is to say that it treats in a certain sense of all three . Inasmuch as no reasoning process can be ex- plained or communicated to another person without words , we are practically limited to such ...
... objects ? The simplest and truest answer is to say that it treats in a certain sense of all three . Inasmuch as no reasoning process can be ex- plained or communicated to another person without words , we are practically limited to such ...
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... objects of thought , and we treat of language so far as it is the embodiment of thought . If the reader will bear this explanation in mind , he will be saved from some per- plexity when he proceeds to read different works on logic , and ...
... objects of thought , and we treat of language so far as it is the embodiment of thought . If the reader will bear this explanation in mind , he will be saved from some per- plexity when he proceeds to read different works on logic , and ...
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