Logic: Or, The Right Use Of Reason, In The Inquiry After Truth - Softcover

Isaac Watts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461924846 ISBN 13: 9780461924848

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Logic: Or, The Right Use Of Reason, In The Inquiry After Truth by Isaac Watts is a comprehensive early-18th-century treatise that presents logic as the art of using reason well to seek truth and to guide conduct in religion, learning, and daily life. Watts outlines a fourfold cognitive framework: perception (the mind’s operations of conceiving, judging, reasoning, and disposing), judgment and proposition, reasoning and syllogism, and disposition or method. The work begins with an Introduction on the nature and use of reason, then systematically examines the nature of ideas, the objects of perception (being, substances, modes), and the divisions of mind into sense, memory, abstraction, and language. It treats the ten Aristotelian categories, the objects of perception, simple and complex ideas, universals and particulars, and the proper use of words. The book then details the forms of propositions, the varieties of syllogisms, and the dangers of sophisms, before concluding with the theory of method, and practical directions for clear, careful thinking and effective communication.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461924846
• ISBN 13: 9780461924848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304