Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia 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

Tin following Treatise contains the substance of the Article Loam in the Encyclopedia Metropohtana. It was suggested to me that a separate publication of it might rove acceptable, not only to some who are not subscribers to that work, but also to several who are; but who, for convenience of reference, would prefer a more portable volume. In factanumber of individuals had actually formed a desi n (prevented only by this publication) of joining toget er to have the Article re printed for their own private use.

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Genres: Logic, Philosophy

396 pages, Hardcover

Published February 2, 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.

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.