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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. SYNTHETICAL COMPENDIUM. Chap. I. ? Of the Operations of the Mind and of Terms. operations of There are three operations of the mind the mind. wliich are immediately concerned in argument; 1st. Simple Apprehension; 2d. Judgment; 3d. Dis- couse or Reasoning. simpic-ap- 1st. Simple-apprehension is the notion (or prehension. conceptjon) of any object in the mind, analogous to the perception of the senses. It is either Incomplex or Complex: Incomplex Apprehension is of one object, or of several without any relation being perceived between Logical writers have in general begun by laying down that there are, in all, three operations of the mind: (in universum tres) an assertion by no means incontrovertible, and which, if admitted, is nothing to the present purpose; our business is with argumentation, and the operations of the rnind implied in that; what others there may be, or whether any, are irrelevant questions. The opening of a treatise with a statement respecting the operations of the mind universally, tends to foster the prevailing error (from which probably the minds of the writers were not exempt) of supposing that Logic professes to teach the use of the mental faculties in general; ? the right use of reason, according to Watts. them, as of a man, a horse, cards: complex is of several with such a relation, as of a man on horseback, a pack of cards. 2d. Judgment is the comparing together in the mind two of the notions (or ideas) which are the objects of Apprehension, whether complex or in- complex, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other: (or that one of them belongs or does not belong to the other.) Judgment, therefore, is either affirmative or negative. 3d. Reasoning (or discourse) is the act of ....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217947220 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217947220 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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