An Essay On Logical Method - Softcover

Charles Peter Chretien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371622034 ISBN 13: 9780371622032

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

An Essay On Logical Method by Charles Peter Chretien. This work surveys the relation of Logic to Science from ancient to modern times, tracing how different schools and schoolsmen conceived Logic and its place in knowledge. It opens with a discussion of the historical role of method in logic, then moves through the ancient view of Logic in relation to Science, the medieval fusion of Aristotle’s Wisdom with theology, and the development of the modern view which distinguishes verbal, phenomenal, and conceptual approaches to logic. The book analyzes Nominalism and Realism, the critiques of Scholasticism, and the rise of Baconian and inductive methods, arguing that Logic is an instrument of Philosophy rather than a Science itself. It then outlines the modern distinctions among sciences (pure, applied, classificatory) and their modes of demonstration (deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis), and finally considers Logic’s relation to Art and Morality, the analysis and synthesis of ideas, and the boundaries of scientific unity. The Conclusion reflects on whether a single science of Being is attainable and suggests the possibility of a guiding high science to direct the progress of others.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371622034
• ISBN 13: 9780371622032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239