The Essentials of Logic, Being Ten Lectures on Judgment and Inference

by Bernard Bosanquet

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...so expressed or can readily be so. Proposi-2. A Judgment expressed in words is a Proposition, which sentence ls one m( of sentence-A command question or wish is a sentence but not a proposition. A detached relative clause1 is not even a complete sentence. The meaning of the imperative and the question seems to include some act of will; the meaning of a proposition is always given out simply for fact or truth. We need not consider any sentence that has no meaning at all. Difference 3-Almost all English logicians speak of the Proposition and Proposi1-not of the Judgment.2 This does not matter, so long as.we tion and are agreed about what they mean. They must mean the proposition as understood, and this is what we call the judgment. In order to make this distinction clear, let us consider the proposition as it reaches us from without, that is to say, either as spoken or as written. The words, the parts of such a proposition, as we hear or read them, are separate and successive either in time alone, or in time and space. Further, the mere sounds or signs can be mastered apart from the meaning. You can repeat them or copy them without understanding them in the least, as e. g. in the case of a proposition in an unknown language. So far, the proposition has not become a judgment, and I do not suppose that any logician would admit that it deserved the name even of a proposition. But if not, then we must not confuse the attributes which it has before it becomes a proposition with those which it has after. 1 See above, Lect. IV. 2 So Mill, Venn, Jevons, Bain (see his note, p. 8o). Further, in understanding a proposition, or in construing a sentence into a proposition (if the sentence only becomes a proposition when understood), there are many degrees. I read upon a p...

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1897

About the author

Bernard Bosanquet (/ˈboʊzənˌkɛt, -kɪt/; 14 June[1] 1848 – 8 February 1923) was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in late 19th and early 20th century Britain. His work influenced – but was later subject to criticism by – many thinkers, notably Bertrand Russell, John Dewey and William James. Bernard was the husband of Charity Organisation Society leader Helen Bosanquet.

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