A Treatise on Logic: Or the Laws of Pure Thought; Comprising Both the Aristotelic and Hamiltonian Analyses of Logical Forms, and Some Chapters of Applied Logic (Classic Reprint)

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The only hope that this volume may be ibund to be of some use consists in the fact, that, as I was the last to enter the field, i have been able to profit by the labors of my predecessors. Certainly it could not have been written without their aid, and one of the chief objects held in view in the prepa ration of it has been to gather together, and digest into system, their several improvements and eluci dations of the science. At the same time, the work would not have been carried on in the same spirit in which they began it, if I had not ventured respectfully to dissent from some of their doctrines, and even to present some opinions which will very likely be found to have no other merit than that of originality. As Le Clerc remarks, in introducing his own lucid and thoughtful compendium of the science to the reader's notice, si, in bacce Logica, m'iu'l ease novz', aut plerague nova dz'xenin, leclorem pervade fl'fellero.

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