Reformed Logic: A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic — John Shaqi
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
XXIV Perspection or Depth in groups--Perspective
degradation--Redintegration, real and ideal--This groupment
as a fixed Precedent--Standard of Depth--Sky Perspection 108
XXV Concretion of Cubic ideas from flat
objects--Backs of things--Resistance--Dr. Johnson on
Idealism--Danger of trifling with Idealists, illustrated from
the Dabistán--Geographical Concretion--Its superiority to mere
Recollection--Sphericity of the Earth, what it means 118
XXVI Material Sequence defined, with
examples--TIME the interval between objects in
Sequence--Eternity--Scientific confusion of Sequence with
Causation 126
XXVII CAUSATION--Its peculiarities--How
distinguished from Sequence--Effects are never
causes--Cause consists of Motive, Plan, and
Power--Generation not causation--Atoms not
causes--Sub-categories of Causation--'Conservation'
of Energy discussed--Note on DREAMS 130
REDACTION OF COLLOQUIAL ARGUMENTS
XXVIII Language not naturally an instrument of
Argument--How to adapt it to this purpose--Negative
words--Partitive words--Redaction does not extend to the
correction of faulty observation--Syllogistic Conversion
not necessary on the Substantial method 151
FALLACIES
XXIX Of Equivocation--Of Imperfect Observation 157
XXX Of Parallel Arrangement--Suppressed
Precedent--Inferring a negative from Contrast--False
Analogy--Doubtful Precedent--Of Accident--Of Division--Of
Composition--Dialectical Tautology--Cross
Reasoning--Fallacy of No Case--Of Inversion--Suppressed
Conclusion--Of No Application--Of Irrelevant Conclusion 161
ACADEMICAL DIALECTIC
XXXI Various notions of Reason entertained by
Syllogists--One only true, Analogy 175
XXXII 'Immediate Inference' is not Argument,
but explicitness and emphasis in language 176
XXXIII Arithmetic, what it is--The Real and the
Symbolic--Reasoning enters only into the Real--The Symbolic
a kind of expression 177
XXXIV Geometrical Demonstration not a form of
Reasoning--The so-called 'deductive reasoning' of Geometry
a graduated series of lessons in perception 182
XXXV Induction not a special kind of reasoning,
but a deduction with suppressed precedent--Other meanings
of the word 185
XXXVI Aristotle's Dictum explained and refuted 187
XXXVII Mediate Comparison not Argument 189
XXXVIII Syllogism analysed--It is not
Argument--Doctrine of the Predicate--Moods of the
Syllogism discussed--All moods reducible to One 191
STUDIES IN DIALECTIC
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