Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; With Additions, &c

by Richard Whately

Excerpt from Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; With Additions, &C
You yourself also, I have reason to believe, have forgotten the greater part of assistance you have afforded in the course of conversations on the subject; as I have found more than once, that ideas which I distinctly remember to have received from you, have not been recognised by you when read or repeated. As far, however, as I can recollect, though there is no part of the following pages in which I have not, more or less, received valuable suggestions from you, I believe you have contributed less to Analytical Outline, and to the Treatise on Fallacies, and more, to the subjoined Dissertation, than to the rest of the Work.
I take this opportunity of publicly declaring, that as, on the one hand, you are not responsible for anything contained in this Work, so, on the other hand, should you ever favor the world with a publication of your own on the subject, the coincidence which will doubtless be found in it with many things here brought forward as my own, is not to be regarded as any indication of plagiarism, at least on your side.
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Genres: Logic, Philosophy

298 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

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.

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[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.