Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; With Additions, &C

by Richard Whately

Excerpt from Elements of Logic

The present edition has been revised with the utmost care. But though the work has undergone not only the close examination of myself and several friends, but the severer scrutiny of determined opponents, I am happy to find that no material errors have been detected, nor an considerable alterations found necessary. Some sm additions have, however, been introduced into the third and fourth editions; and also a change in the arrange ment, which I trust will somewhat lighten the student's labor. I have removed into an Appendix a considerable portion of what was in the first two editions placed in Part I. Tow Chap. I.) of the Compendium; as being (though big ly important, not only from its connexion with the rea soning process, but for other purposes, yet) not necessary, after the perusal of the Analytical Outline, for the under standing of the Second and Third Chapters. It may be studied, at the learner's choice, either before or after the Compendium.

Genres: Logic, Philosophy

398 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.

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.