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Logic

The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry after Truth

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Notes: First published London: John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. Became the standard logic textbook at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale for nearly two centuries, treating the four functions of the mind: perception, judgment, reasoning, and disposition.
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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