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I. Logic, called by Whately "the science and art of reasoning," and by John Stuart Mill "the science of evidence or proof," is the science of the forms of thought," or "of those laws on which depends the truth of thought," and is defined by St. Thomas: "The science which teaches man how to order aright the acts of the intellect in the pursuit and acquirement of true science;" and again: "The science of the order to be followed in the acts of the intellect in the pursuit and demonstration of truth." Suarez says: "It is the proper office of Logic to give the means of acquiring true science, - which is done by showing what are its instruments, and by demonstrating their power and properties."
These words of Suarez, and the first three of the six definitions enumerated, apply, strictly speaking, only to Formal Logic, or Dialectics, of which we shall speak just now: so that the choice of a general definition is restricted to the two statements of St. Thomas and the definition immediately preceding them; while it is clear that choice is merely a matter of form, as all three express precisely the same thing.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330020936
- ISBN 13 9781330020937
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages262
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