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Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

Isaac Watts
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As a child of Puritan parents, it is not surprising that Isaac Watts was greatly concerned about people’s ability to think clearly. Whether a man was studying for the ministry or any other of the sciences, the ability to reason rightly was of utmost importance. Watts’s work on logic and reason became a standard textbook for nearly 200 years, being used in such schools as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale.

In Logic, Watts address proper thinking under the four basic functions of the human mind: perception, judgment, reasoning, and disposition. In part one, Watts addresses human perception, the cultivation of ideas, and how we associate them with words. In part two, Watts treats human judgment and its ability to construct various kinds of propositions, while giving guidance for avoiding the formation of bad judgments. Part three covers our ability to reason, giving instruction on the use of syllogisms for constructing a good argument. Part four discusses the mind’s disposition as a method of arranging our thoughts for better understanding and memory.

This book will help discipline the mind and train the reader to discern proper thinking and argumentation in seeking truth.

Table of Contents:

First Part: Of Perception and Ideas

1. Of the Nature of Ideas

2. Of the Objects of Perception

3. Of the Several Sorts of Perceptions or Ideas

4. Of Words, and their Several Divisions, Together with the Advantage and Danger of Them

5. General Directions Relating to our Ideas

6. Special Rules to Direct our Conception of Things

Second Part: Of Judgment and Proposition

1. Of the Nature of a Proposition, and its Several parts

2. Of the various Kinds of Propositions

3. The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices

4. General Directions to Assist us in Judging Aright

5. Special Rules to Direct us in Judging of Particular

Third Part: Of Reason and Syllogism

1. Of the Nature of a Syllogism, and the parts of Which it is Composed

2. Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them

3. The Doctrine of Syllogisms

4. Some General Rules to Direct our Reasoning

Fourth Part: Of Disposition and Method

1. The Nature and Kinds of Method, viz. Natural and Arbitrary, Synthetic and Analytic

2. General and Special Rules of Method
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1802
ISBN 13
9781573580557

Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

Isaac Watts
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
As a child of Puritan parents, it is not surprising that Isaac Watts was greatly concerned about people’s ability to think clearly. Whether a man was studying for the ministry or any other of the sciences, the ability to reason rightly was of utmost importance. Watts’s work on logic and reason became a standard textbook for nearly 200 years, being used in such schools as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale.

In Logic, Watts address proper thinking under the four basic functions of the human mind: perception, judgment, reasoning, and disposition. In part one, Watts addresses human perception, the cultivation of ideas, and how we associate them with words. In part two, Watts treats human judgment and its ability to construct various kinds of propositions, while giving guidance for avoiding the formation of bad judgments. Part three covers our ability to reason, giving instruction on the use of syllogisms for constructing a good argument. Part four discusses the mind’s disposition as a method of arranging our thoughts for better understanding and memory.

This book will help discipline the mind and train the reader to discern proper thinking and argumentation in seeking truth.

Table of Contents:

First Part: Of Perception and Ideas

1. Of the Nature of Ideas

2. Of the Objects of Perception

3. Of the Several Sorts of Perceptions or Ideas

4. Of Words, and their Several Divisions, Together with the Advantage and Danger of Them

5. General Directions Relating to our Ideas

6. Special Rules to Direct our Conception of Things

Second Part: Of Judgment and Proposition

1. Of the Nature of a Proposition, and its Several parts

2. Of the various Kinds of Propositions

3. The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices

4. General Directions to Assist us in Judging Aright

5. Special Rules to Direct us in Judging of Particular

Third Part: Of Reason and Syllogism

1. Of the Nature of a Syllogism, and the parts of Which it is Composed

2. Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them

3. The Doctrine of Syllogisms

4. Some General Rules to Direct our Reasoning

Fourth Part: Of Disposition and Method

1. The Nature and Kinds of Method, viz. Natural and Arbitrary, Synthetic and Analytic

2. General and Special Rules of Method
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1802
ISBN 13
9781573580557

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