Reformed Logic: A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of DialecticMcLachlan, D. B.
Philosophy
Reformed Logic: A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic
McLachlan, D. B.
Logic
X Sentiments may be remembered--Feelings and
Emotions--No detailed analysis of Sentiments possible
or necessary--Spinoza's list--Can sentiments be
noumenally excited without objects? 34
XI Analysis of Comparison--It is the principle
of Generalisation and Imagination 36
GENERALISATION
XII Purpose of Generalisation--Objects
classified must be similar and have similar
utilities--Inferiority of general
ideas acquired by definition--Names not essential to
general thought--Generalisation resembles composite
photography--Classification on mere objective
resemblance--neat but superficial--Conceptualism 38
XIII MATTER the most general notion derived
from Objects--Belief in Real Matter a form of Mysticism--A
material basis for phenomena unnecessary 43
XIV NOMINALISM--Berkeley's Nominalism, and
objections thereto--Concrete Thought expressed in general
terms 46
XV Generalisation the bane of European
philosophy--Plato's theories on General Ideas--Aristotle's
'Essence'--Classification a means, not the end of Reason--The
explanatory Unity a unity of service--Evolution a concrete
Platonism 58
IMAGINATION
XVI How distinguished from Recollection and
Reverie--Imagination by Simple
Combination--By Transfusion--Artistic Imagination--Rational
Imagination--Wrong views of Metaphysicians 63
DIALECTIC
XVII Recapitulation of the genealogy of Reason--It
is the art of conceiving the Future and Unknown--Dialectic
the science of Reason--Division of theorems into
Arguments and Fallacies--Method of Dialectic 68
XVIII The RATIONAL PARALLEL--Rational
Conclusions are never certain--Essential parts of an
Argument--Rules of Parallel--False conclusions cannot
be destroyed but may be stigmatised--In what
circumstances we may reason concerning a known fact 74
XIX Hypothetical Arguments--Current errors
with respect to these--Dilemma 80
XX DEBATE is extra-dialectic--How a
valid argument may be criticised 87
CATEGORIES
XXI Natural--Realistic--Scientific--Philosophical
--Categories of Pythagoreans--of Aristotle--of Kant, etc. 92
XXII Category of Inherence--It is a metaphysical
analysis of objects--Examples of Judgment and Argument--Use
of Standards for Mediate Comparison 97
XXIII Category of Association
defined--Position--Examples of Judgment and
Argument--Movement--Number--Flat Space 103
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