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Picture logic

by Alfred James Swinburne

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Author
Swinburne, Alfred James, 1847?-1915
Title
Picture logic : An attempt to popularise the science of reasoning by the combination of humorous pictures with examples of reasoning taken from daily life
Original Publication
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887.
Credits
deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BC: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Logic
Subject
Logic
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 79775
Release Date
October 13, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.PICTURE LOGIC
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. WHAT IS SCIENCE?
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. WHAT IS ART?
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. LOGIC IS A SCIENCE AND AN ART.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. FORM AND MATTER OF THOUGHT.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. THE RECONCILIATION, AND ALSO HOW LOGIC IS MORE OF A SCIENCE THAN AN ART.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. LOGIC THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCES AND ART OF ARTS.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE RELATION OF LOGIC TO LANGUAGE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. ALL THOUGHT IS COMPARISON.
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. THE TERM.
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI. PROPOSITIONS.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII. DISTRIBUTION OF TERMS IN A PROPOSITION.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. HEADS OF PREDICABLES.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. DEFINITION.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV. DIVISION.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. INFERENCE.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. SYLLOGISM.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. SYLLOGISM.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. SYLLOGISM—CANON OF FIRST FIGURE—REDUCTION.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX. TRAINS OF REASONING—SORITES.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISMS.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. PROBABLE REASONING.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALLACIES.
  28. 28.APPENDIX A.
  29. 29.APPENDIX B.
  30. 30.APPENDIX C.
  31. 31.A LIST OF USEFUL FACTS IN LOGIC.

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