Elements of logic

by Richard Whately

Elements of logic comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopaedia metropolitana with additions (1831). This book, "Elements of logic," by Richard Whately, is a replication of a book originally published before 1831. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

Genres: Logic, Philosophy

436 pages, Paperback

Published October 26, 2013

About the author

English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics. Whately was an important figure in the revival of Aristotelian logic in the early nineteenth century. Whately's view of rhetoric as essentially a method for persuasion became an orthodoxy, challenged in mid-century by Henry Noble Day.

Reviews

[Blunt Of Mercia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good, but the prose style is exceedingly dense, not for the faint of heart! Certainly interesting if one is interested in the history of education, or logic.