Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic

[Footnote 2: See Stricker's _Manual of Histology_; _Bioplasm_, and other works, by Dr. Lionel S. Beale, M.B., F.R.S.; and an article on the New Psychology, by A. Fouillé, in the...

Our experience is, literally and exactly, a series or sequence--a flux or stream. It is composed of objects or of groups, according to the width of our attention. If we travel o...

_'Conservation' of Energy._ Energy is annihilated in the using. It emanates from a great universal centre, and at a short distance from that centre is completely and irrecoverab...

For purposes of reason it may be necessary to compare things that cannot be brought physically together. When this happens we generally compare them in _idea_, or the idea of on...

We have seen (X) that emotions may be excited by objects or ideas. Hence, agreeable emotions may be excited by suggesting the objects associated with the original agreeable feel...

Suppose we have to determine dialectically the specific gravity of a piece of metal, but do not know whether it is gold or gun-metal. It is evident we must first somehow make up...

'And as the mind frames to itself abstract ideas of qualities or modes, so does it, by the same precision or mental separation, attain abstract ideas [general ideas] of the more...

'Conversion' is a process admitted or required in the artificial methods of syllogistic dialectic. It consists mainly in transposing the subject and predicate of a proposition,...

[Footnote 18: Whately complains of the disinclination shown by logicians to put their rules into practice. 'Whenever they have to treat of anything that is beyond the mere eleme...

No doubt it is, for in contemplating a thing we can mentally enter it into all the classes to which it appears to belong, whatever be their generality. Knowing the class Europea...

What is called 'decay of the mind' in old age is merely the loss of the plasmic images. Since intellect would not have been formed in the first instance if it had not been wante...

The following is more subtle. 'Theft is a crime; theft was encouraged by the laws of Sparta; therefore the laws of Sparta encouraged crime.'--At most the laws of Sparta encourag...

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'Something has existed from eternity. For since something now is, it is manifest that something always was. Otherwise the things that now are must have risen out of nothing, abs...