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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: 26 CHAPTER II. On Objeffs, Ideas, and Names. LOGIC is derived from a Greek word (Ao'yof) which fignifies communication of thought, ufually by fpeech. It is the name which is generally given to the branch of inquiry (be it called fcience or art), in which the acl: of the mind in reafoning is con- fidered, particularly with reference to the connection of thought and language. But no definition yet given in few words has been found fatisfactory to any confiderable number of thinking perfons. All exifting things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own exiftence, poflefs, fome in one degree and fome in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effect of external objects upon the fenfes. By thought I here mean, all mental action, not only that comparatively high ftate of it which is peculiar to man, but alfo that lower degree of the fame thing which appears to be poflefled by brutes. With refpect to the mind, confidered as a complicated apparatus which is to be ftudied, we are not even fo well off as thofe would be who had to examine and decide upon the mje- chanifm of a watch, merely by obfervation of the functions of the hands, without being allowed to fee the infide. A mechanician, to whom a watch was prefented for the firft time, would be able to give a good guefs as to its ftructure, from his knowledge of other pieces of contrivance. As foon as he had examined the law of the motion of the hands, he might conceivably invent an inftru- ment with fimilar properties, in fifty different ways. But in the cafe of the mind, we have manifeftations only, without the fmalleft power of reference to other fimilar things, or the leaft knowledge of ftructure or procefs, other than what may be derived from thofe man...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217213745 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021721374X |
| Weight | 0.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $21.42 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 278 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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