The Principles of Logic, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

F. H. Bradley

 
9781440089022: The Principles of Logic, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

A clear, compact look at how mind, action, and reality fit together.

This work surveys the long-running tension between practical and theoretical thinking, showing how experience is more than just knowledge and how philosophy tests ideas against real life.

The discussion argues that truth and meaning arise from actual activity within the world, not from abstract contemplation alone. It asks how we can ground a philosophy in concrete reality while still using general concepts to guide judgment and action. The result is a practical, rigorous view of logic as a tool for understanding how we think, decide, and act in a complex world.

  • Experience encompasses feeling, doing, enjoying, and suffering—not merely knowing.
  • Theory and practice are interdependent, with philosophy serving as a guide that must be tested in reality.
  • Truth is a product of tested experience, expressed through useful concepts and actions.
  • Abstraction and deduction are valuable but require careful grounding in concrete facts and experiments.

Ideal for readers who want a thoughtful, accessible introduction to how logic connects ideas with the real world.

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BOOK IlL-PART I
I NFEREN CE-CO NT IN U ED
CHAPTER I
THE ENQUIRY HEOPF.Ntt
§ I. In the Second Part of the foregoing Book we were
concerned with negations. Ve \'ere cmployed in banishing
some views of inference vhich appeared erroneous. From
this negative process we turn with relief, and with the hope of
rest in a positive result. But VC must not deceive ourselves.
The positive result we have already reached, offers a welcome
in part illuslve, and a rest that is doomed to speedy disturhance.
\~e sav in all inference an ideal synthesis, which
tlui tcd round a centre or cent res of identity,1 not less than two
terms into one construction. The conclusion was then a new
relation of these terms, and it was hy an intuition that we
perceived it to exist vithin the individual ,,,·hole we had compacted.
And this account tha.t we gave was not a false account,
for it vas true of those inferences to which we applied
ourselves. nut there are other reasonings no le

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