A System of Logic

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Canonical title

A System of Logic

Original title

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive; Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Original publication date

1843

First words

It is so much the established practice of writers on logic to commence their treatises by a few general observations (in most cases, it is true, rather meagre) on Terms and their varieties, that it will, perhaps, scarcely be ... (show all)required from me, in merely following the common usage, to be as particular in assigning my reasons, as it is usually expected that those should be who deviate from it.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I have indulged the hope that to some of those on whom the task will devolve of bringing those most important of all sciences into a more satisfactory state, these observations may be useful, both in removing erroneous, and in clearing up the true, conceptions of the means by which, on subjects of so high a degree of complication, truth can be attained. Should this hope be realized, what is probably destined to be the great intellectual achievement of the next two or three generations of European thinkers will have been in some degree forwarded.

Disambiguation notice

This work should be those editions where A System of Logic is published as a single work, whether that work is one volume or two. It should not include Logics that are part of a wider boxed set (e.g. of Mill's complete works... (show all)) or where the Logic has been published in two parts purchased seperately. This may take some time to get right!