The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic

Venn, John

ISBN 10: 0833736256 / ISBN 13: 9780833736253

Edité par Burt Franklin, New York, 1972

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604pp.incl.index; HB orange w/gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. Research and Source Works Series. Philosophy and Religious History Monographs 113. orig.pub.1907.

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• Titre: The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic
• Éditeur: Burt Franklin, New York
• Date de parution: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0833736256
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780833736253
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Reprint
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
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Annex PREFACE. HPHIS work contains the substance of Lectures delivered during J- a number of years inC ambridge; at first to members of my own College, and afterwards to students generally in the University. Although the main outlines were sketched long ago, and a large portion of the materials had been delivered for several years in nearly the form now presented, the chapters here offered to the reader have been throughout written out afresh for the present occasion. As many readers will probably perceive, the main original guiding influence with me, as with most of those of the middle generation, and especially with most of those who approached Logic with a previous mathematical or scientific training, was that of Mill. But, as they may also perceive, this influence has subsequently generated the relation of criticism and divergence quite as much as that of acceptance; though I still continue to regard the general attitude towards phenomena, which Mill took up as a logician, to be the soundest and most useful for scientific study. This attitude of the scientific logician, as I conceive arid interpret it, has been so fully explained in the introductory chapter, that I need only say that it is based upon that fundamental Duality in accordance with which it becomes the function of the logician to reduce to order, to interpret, and to forecast the complex of external objects which we call the phenomenal world. Whatever there may be that is at all distinctive in the following treatise, for instance in the explanation of Hypotheticals, and in the discussion of the relation of Art or Conduct to Science, follows I think from a more thoroughgoing adherence to this view than is customary v.
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