An Essay On Logical Method - Softcover

Charles P. Chretien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461704102 ISBN 13: 9780461704105

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

An Essay On Logical Method by Charles P. Chretien. The book offers a historical and critical study of how Logic relates to Science and the role of Method. It argues that method is prior to both Logic and Science and that Logic is an instrument of inquiry rather than a sovereign science. The work surveys the evolution of thought from ancient Greek philosophers through medieval scholastics to modern philosophers, outlining competing views on the relation of Logic to Science, the universals problem, and the fate of scholastic method. It contrasts the Ancient view (Logic as part of Philosophy, with Aristotle and Plato), the Medieval view (Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Schoolmen, Nominalism vs Realism, Predicables and Categories), and the Modern view (Bacon, Mill, and the three modern schools of logic: verbal, phenomenal, and conceptual). The central portion develops Chretien's own framework: Logic as a general method, the method of Science, the ideas that underlie scientific classifying and defining, and the processes of analysis and synthesis. He discusses how Art and Morality relate to Logic and ends with a call for a higher, integrating Science beyond a mere universal system. The book was published in 1848.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461704102
• ISBN 13: 9780461704105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254