There is, perhaps, an increasing tendency to recognize that the organism
of knowledge is a thing which from any single viewpoint must be seen in
perspective. It is of course a postulate that all truths harmonize, but
to give the harmonious whole in a projection in one plane is an
undertaking whose adequacy in one sense involves an inadequacy in
another. No human architect can hope to take up in succession all
essential points of view in regard to the form of knowledge or to logic.
"The great campanile is still to finish."
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Historical: No complete history of logic in the sense
in which it is to be distinguished from theoretical philosophy in
general has as yet been written. The history of logic is indeed so
little intelligible apart from constant reference to tendencies in
philosophical development as a whole, that the historian, when he has
made the requisite preparatory studies, inclines to essay the more
ambitious task. Yet there are, of course, works devoted to the history
of logic proper.
Of these Prantl's _Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande_ (4 vols.,
1855-1870), which traces the rise, development and fortunes of the
Aristotelian logic to the close of the middle ages, is monumental.
Next in importance are the works of L. Rabus, _Logik und Metaphysik_,
i. (1868) (pp. 123-242 historical, pp. 453-518 bibliographical, pp.
514 sqq. a section on apparatus for the study of the history of
logic), _Die neuesten Bestrebungen auf dem Gebiete der Logik bei den
Deutschen_ (1880), _Logik_ (1895), especially for later writers § 17.
Ueberweg's _System der Logik und Geschichte der logischen Lehren_ (4th
ed. and last revised by the author, 1874, though it has been reissued
later, Eng. trans., 1871) is alone to be named with these. Harms'
posthumously published _Geschichte der Logik_ (1881) (_Die Philosophie
in ihrer Geschichte_, ii.) was completed by the author only so far as
Leibnitz. Blakey's _Historical Sketch of Logic_ (1851), though, like
all this writer's works, closing with a bibliography of some
pretensions, is now negligible. Franck, _Esquisse d'une histoire de la
logique_ (1838) is the chief French contribution to the subject as a
whole.
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