Elements of Logic

by Richard Whately

Excerpt from Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article, in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana; With Additions, &C
The revieal'of a study which been regarded as an obsolete absu have, appeared to many persons, thirty years ago, as an undertaking far more di icult than the introduction of some new study - as resembling rather the attempt to restore life to one of the antediluvian fossil-plants, than the rearing of a young seedling into a tree.
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Genres: Logic, Philosophy

400 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

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]

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.