'Logic Inductive And Deductive By William Minto, M.A., Hon. LL.D. St. Andrews, Late Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen'

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Minto, William, 1845-1893

Title

Logic, Inductive and Deductive

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English

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BC: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Logic

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Logic

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31796

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March 27, 2010

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Contents

1. 1.UNIVERSITY MANUALS — EDITED BY PROFESSOR KNIGHT
2. 2.LOGIC — INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE — LOGIC
3. 3.INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE — BY WILLIAM MINTO, M.A. — LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1915
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.GENERAL PLAN OF THE SERIES.
6. 6.CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION. — I. — II. — III.
7. 7.BOOK I. — THE LOGIC OF CONSISTENCY—SYLLOGISM AND DEFINITION. — PART I. — THE ELEMENTS OF PROPOSITIONS. — Chapter I. — Chapter II.
8. 8.PART II. — DEFINITION. — Chapter I. — Chapter II. — Chapter III. — Chapter IV. — PART III. — THE INTERPRETATION OF PROPOSITIONS. — Chapter I. — Chapter II. — Chapter III. — Chapter IV. — PART IV. — THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF PROPOSITIONS. — Chapter I. — Chapter II. — Chapter III. — Chapter IV. — Chapter V. — Chapter VI. — Chapter VII. — Chapter VIII. — Chapter IX.
9. 9.BOOK II. — INDUCTIVE LOGIC, OR THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE. — Chapter I. — Chapter II. — Chapter III. — Chapter IV. — Chapter V. — Chapter VI. — Chapter VII. — Chapter VIII. — Chapter IX. — Chapter X.
10. 10.INTRODUCTION. — I.—THE ORIGIN AND SCOPE OF LOGIC. — II.—LOGIC AS A PREVENTIVE OF ERROR OR FALLACY.—THE INNER SOPHIST. — The Bias of Impatient Impulse. — The Bias of Happy Exercise. — The Bias of the Feelings. — The Bias of Custom. — III.—THE AXIOMS OF DIALECTIC AND OF SYLLOGISM. — BOOK I.
11. 11.THE LOGIC OF CONSISTENCY. SYLLOGISM AND DEFINITION.
12. 12.PART I. — THE ELEMENTS OF PROPOSITIONS. — Chapter I . — GENERAL NAMES AND ALLIED DISTINCTIONS. — Chapter II . — THE SYLLOGISTIC ANALYSIS OF PROPOSITIONS INTO TERMS. — I.— The Bare Analytic Forms. — II.— The Practice of Syllogistic Analysis. — III.— Some Technical Difficulties.
13. 13.PART II. — DEFINITION. — Chapter I. — IMPERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF WORDS AND THE REMEDIES THEREFOR.—DIALECTIC.—DEFINITION. — I.— Verification of the Meaning—Dialectic. — II.— Principles of Division or Classification and Definition. — Chapter II . — THE FIVE PREDICABLES.—VERBAL AND REAL PREDICATION. — Chapter III. — ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES. — Chapter IV. — THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT UNIVERSALS. —DIFFICULTIES CONCERNING THE RELATION OF GENERAL NAMES TO THOUGHT AND TO REALITY.
14. 14.PART III. — THE INTERPRETATION OF PROPOSITIONS. —OPPOSITION AND IMMEDIATE INFERENCE. — Chapter I. — THEORIES OF PREDICATION.—THEORIES OF JUDGMENT. — Chapter II. — THE "OPPOSITION" OF PROPOSITIONS.—THE INTERPRETATION OF "NO". — Chapter III. — THE IMPLICATION OF PROPOSITIONS. —IMMEDIATE FORMAL INFERENCE.—EDUCATION. — Æquipollent or Equivalent Forms—Obversion. — Conversion. — Table of Contrapositive Converses. — Other Forms of Immediate Inference. — Chapter IV. — THE COUNTER-IMPLICATION OF PROPOSITIONS. — The Law of Homogeneous Counter-relativity.
15. 15.PART IV. — THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF PROPOSITIONS.—MEDIATE INFERENCE.—SYLLOGISM. — Chapter I. — THE SYLLOGISM. — Chapter II . — FIGURES AND MOODS OF THE SYLLOGISM. — I.—The First Figure. — II.— The Minor Figures Of the Syllogism, And Their Reduction To the First . — III.— The Sorites. — Chapter III. — THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE SYLLOGISTIC MOODS. —THE CANONS OF THE SYLLOGISM. — Chapter IV. — THE ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTS INTO SYLLOGISTIC FORMS. — I.— First Figure. — II.— Second Figure. — Third Figure. — Examples for Analysis. — Chapter V. — ENTHYMEMES. — Chapter VI. — THE UTILITY OF THE SYLLOGISM. — Chapter VII. — CONDITIONAL ARGUMENTS.—HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM, DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM, AND DILEMMA. — I.— Hypothetical Syllogisms. — Questions Connected with Hypothetical Syllogisms. — II.— Disjunctive Syllogisms. — III.— The Dilemma. — Chapter VIII. — FALLACIES IN DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENT.—PETITIO PRINCIPII AND IGNORATIO ELENCHI. — Chapter IX. — FORMAL OR ARISTOTELIAN INDUCTION.—INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT. — BOOK II.
16. 16.INDUCTIVE LOGIC, OR THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE. — INTRODUCTION. — Chapter I. — THE DATA OF EXPERIENCE AS GROUNDS OF INFERENCE OR RATIONAL BELIEF. — Chapter II. — ASCERTAINMENT OF SIMPLE FACTS IN THEIR ORDER.—PERSONAL OBSERVATION.—HEARSAY EVIDENCE—METHOD OF TESTING TRADITIONAL EVIDENCE. — I.—Personal Observation. — II.—Tradition.—Hearsay Evidence . — III.—Method of Testing Traditional Evidence . — Chapter III. — ASCERTAINMENT OF FACTS OF CAUSATION. — I.— Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc . — II.—Meaning of "Cause".—Methods of Observation—Mill's Experimental Methods. — Chapter IV. — METHODS OF OBSERVATION.—SINGLE DIFFERENCE. — I.— The Principle of Single Difference.— Mill's "Canon". — II.—Application of the Principle. — Chapter V. — METHODS OF OBSERVATION.—ELIMINATION.—SINGLE AGREEMENT. — I.— The Principle of Elimination. — II.— The Principle of Single Agreement. — III.— Mill's "Joint Method of Agreement and Difference". — Chapter VI. — METHODS OF OBSERVATION.—MINOR METHODS. — I.—Concomitant Variations. — II.— Single Residue. — Chapter VII. — THE METHOD OF EXPLANATION. — II.— Obstacles to Explanation.—Plurality of Causes and Intermixture of Effects. — III.— The Proof of a Hypothesis. — Chapter VIII. — SUPPLEMENTARY METHODS OF INVESTIGATION. — I.— The Maintenance of Averages. — Supplement to the Method of Difference. — II.— The Presumption from Extra-Casual Coincidence. — Chapter IX. — PROBABLE INFERENCE TO PARTICULARS—THE MEASUREMENT OF PROBABILITY. — Chapter X. — INFERENCE FROM ANALOGY. — Transcriber's Note

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