DOCTRINE OF REASONINGS.-SYLLOGISMS-THEIR DIVISIONS ACCORDING TO INTERNAL FORM.-A. SIMPLE-CATE- GORICAL.II. DEDUCTIVE IN COMPREHENSION. - III. LECTURES ON LOGIC. LECTURE I.a INTRODUCTION. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOGIC.-I. ITS DEFINITION. LECT. per,-mode in which its tion ought ducted. instruction. GENTLEMEN,-We are now about to enter on the consideration of one of the most important branches of Mental Philosophy, the science which is conversant Logic proabout the Laws of Thought. But, before commencing considerathe discussion, I would premise a word in regard to to be conthe mode in which it ought to be conducted, with a view to your information and improvement. The End of great end which every instructor ought to propose in the communication of a science, is, to afford the student clear and distinct notions of its several parts, of their relations to each other, and to the whole of which they are the constituents. For unless he accomplish this, it is of comparatively little moment that his information be in itself either new or important; for of what consequence are all the qualities of a doctrine, if that doctrine be not communicated?— and communicated it is not, if it be not understood. But in the communication of a doctrine, the me- Methods of a The first seven Lectures of the delivered by Sir W. Hamilton as a Metaphysical Course, (Lectures on General Introduction to the Course of Metaphysics, vol. i. p. 1-128), were Logic proper.-ED. VOL. I. A |