Lectures On Logic - Softcover

Charles Edward Moberly

 
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Lectures On Logic by Charles Edward Moberly. This early Victorian treatise offers a systematic manual of logical method, drawing on the Aristotelian and scholastic traditions. Structurally organized into five parts, it begins with the training of the mind: precise apprehension, sound judgment, and rigorous reasoning, and then explores how language, terminology, and the logical forms shape clear thinking. The book introduces concepts such as Predicables, Abstraction, and Logical Division, and develops distinctions among genus and species, subjects and predicates, and the nature of terms. It then moves to the analysis of judgments, propositions, and the different kinds of inference, including syllogisms in the first, second, and third figures, as well as modal, hypothetical, and disjunctive forms. Part III surveys reasoning processes—deduction and induction—treating induction as a source of general principles and deduction as the primary route to demonstration. Part IV discusses fallacies and imperfect arguments, while Part V groups arguments in connection, including trains of reasoning and cumulative evidence. The work reflects 19th-century pedagogy, aiming to cultivate a universally applicable logical temper useful across disciplines.

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