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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: CHAPTER III. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF PROOF: MAIN KINDS OF THESIS. I. Indication. The most general of all relations, asserted or denied, is that which for want of a better name may in the meantime be called ' Indication.' The copula'indicates, ' as here understood, includes the copula ' is' (as in ' S is P'), stretching, however, beyond the usual interpretation of the latter. By calling this the most general relation it is meant that, with the one doubtful exception of the purely quantitative relations (the laws of which are amply developed in Mathematics, and require notice only in a more comprehensive scheme than can here be attempted), every proposition may be viewed as saying that one ' thing' indicates, or does not indicate, a certain other. The apparent rashness of this statement will serve at least to show where the difficulty .lies. Some word is wanted, for the purpose of generalising, in one expression, several kinds of assertion which are commonly described by different names; no word appears to me to be bettersuited for the purpose than ' indicates, ' and yet even this would certainly not be sufficient without some explanation. By means of the symbol ?, indeed, it is possible to avoid ambiguity, but since the symbol must have a name we cannot altogether escape the use of language, and can only strive while using it to avoid any misleading associations. For the purpose of dealing with the dangers of Proof, ?including thereunder all dangers to which a thesis, or asserted judgment, is liable, ?the most important fact about propositions seems to be the power which' they give us (when their truth is believed) of passing from the known to the unknown. There are two distinct ways in which they may do this, one of which may be called ' implication, ' and the other
| ISBN-13 | 9780217718264 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217718264 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $14.10 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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