A LOGIC OF FACTS:

or

Every-day Reasoning


By G. J. Holyoake


"Call him wise whose thoughts and words are a clear because to a clear why."—Lavater.

LONDON: F. FARRAH, 282, STRAND, W.C.

1866.






Contents

INTRODUCTION OF 1848.
PREFACE OF 1866.

A LOGIC OF FACTS.

CHAPTER I. THE LOGIC OF THE SCHOOLS
CHAPTER II. LOCKE-LOGIC
CHAPTER III. LOGICAL TRUTH
CHAPTER IV. DISCOVERY OF TRUTH
CHAPTER V. FACTS
CHAPTER VI. SCIENCE
CHAPTER VII. PROPOSITIONS
CHAPTER VIII. DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER IX. SYLLOGISMS
CHAPTER X. INDUCTION
CHAPTER XI. DETECTION OF FALLACIES
CHAPTER XII. SCEPTICISM
CHAPTER XIII.   INTELLECTUAL DARING
CHAPTER XIV. IDOLS
CHAPTER XV. ILLUSTRATIVE EXERCISES
CHAPTER XVI. TECHNICAL TERMS





INTRODUCTION OF 1848.

The Logic of the Schools, however indispensable in its place, fails to meet half the common want in daily life. The Logic of the Schools begins with the management of the premises of an argument; there is, however, a more practical lesson to be learned in beginning with the premises themselves. A thousand errors arise through the assumption of premises for one arising in the misplacement of terms. The Logic of the Schools is an elaborate attack upon the lesser evil.

Sir James Mackintosh has remarked that 'Popular reason can alone correct popular sophistry'—and it is in vain that we expect amendment in the reasoning of the multitude, unless we make reasoning intelligible to the multitude. As to my object, could I, like Gridiron-Cobbet

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