The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-book for Formal Logic

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R. Carter & Brothers, 1881 - 212 páginas
 

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Página 70 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, "Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes;" yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment...
Página 176 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Página 199 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcelgilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsunweek, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, — thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife.
Página 204 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Página 157 - One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Página 69 - You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed, unless every foot, nay, almost every inch, in our progress, be secured by an arch of masonry, before we attempt the excavation of another. Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel.
Página 204 - I knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route. I knew that the animal was blind in one eye, because it had cropped...
Página 151 - If A is B, C is D ; and if E is F, G is H ; But either A is B or E is F ; Therefore either C is D or G is H.
Página ix - In this treatise the Notion (with the Term and the Relation of Thought to Language,'] will be found to occupy a larger relative place than in any logical work written since the time of the famous "Art of Thinking.
Página 121 - This error iar in'aii sub- may be at once illustrated and removed, by considering the parallel instance of Arithmetic ; in which every one is aware that the process of a calculation is not affected by the nature of the objects whose numbers are before us : but that (eg) the multiplication of a number is the very same operation, whether it be a number of men, of miles, or of pounds...

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