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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK II . OF FALLACIES. Introduction. Although sundry instances of Fallacies have been irom time to time noticed in the foregoing Books, it will be worth while to devote a more particular attention to the subject. By a Fallacy is commonly understood, any unsound mode of arguing, which D3J. appears to demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question in hand, when in fairness it is not. Considering the ready detection and clear ez- posure of Fallacies to be both more extensively important, and also more difficult, than many are aware of, I propose to take a logical view of the subject; referring the different Fallacies to the most convenient heads, and giving a scientific analysis of the procedure which takes place in each. After all, indeed, in the practical detection of each individual Fallacy, much must depend on natural and acquired acuteness; nor can any rules be given, the mere learning of which will enable us to apply them with mechanical certainty and readiness: but still we shall find that to take correct general views of the subject, and to be familiarized with scientific discussions of it, will tend above all things, to engender sucli a habit of mind, as will best tit us for practice. Indeed the case is the same with respect to Logic in general Scarcely any one would, in ordinary practice state to himself either his own or another's reasoning, in syllogisms in Barbara at full length; yet a familiarity with logical principles tends very much (as all feel, who are really well acquainted with them) to beget a habit of clear anil sound reasoning. The truth is, in this, as in many other things, there are processes going on in the mind (when we are practising anything quite familial to us) with such rapidity as to leave no trace in the memory; and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217710107 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217710107 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $21.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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