![]() ![]() Most extremely scholastic of the scholastics-and next to them the This fondness for the formal part of logic alreadyĪppeared in the middle ages, when the nominalistic school of Ockham-the Of the quantified predicate is essentially mathematical is beyond Hamilton was so bitter against mathematics, that his own doctrine Anotherĭirection in which logical thought has gone farther in England thanĮlsewhere is in mathematico-formal logic,-the chief writers on whichĪre Boole, De Morgan, and the Scotch Sir Wm. Of the finest accounts of the method of thought in science. Our own day, the writings of Whewell, Mill, and Herschel afford some Professedly and really logical treatise the Novum Organum,Ī work the celebrity of which perhaps exceeds its real merits. Phenomenon Roger Bacon,-a man who was scientific before science began.Īt the first dawn of the age of science, Francis Bacon wrote that Thought running in that direction, when we meet with that singular ![]() Is that there more than elsewhere have the studies of the logic of Ockham are decidedly the greatest speculative minds of the middleĪges, as well as two of the profoundest metaphysicians that ever lived.Īnother circumstance which makes Logic of the British Islands interesting Is beyond question the greatest nominalist that ever lived whileĭuns Scotus, another British name, it is equally certain is the subtilestĪdvocate of the opposite opinion. Many thinkers more distinguished at this day as being nominalistic So much so that in England and in England alone are there The most striking characteristic of British thinkers Logicians a certain family resemblance, which already begins to appear Of thought have always been predominant in those islands, giving their Subject of some particular interest inasmuch as some peculiar lines But the chief value of the study of historical philosophy is that it disciplines the mind to regard philosophy in a cold and scientific eye and not with passion as though philosophers were contestants. For so far as the logic of an age adequately represents the methods of thought of that age, its history is a history of the human mind in its most essential relation,-that is to say with reference to its power of investigating truth. This history of logic is not altogether without an interest as a branch of history. But whether they were right or wrong will be for you and me a question altogether to be neglected, for that is a question of philosophy and not of history. ![]() ![]() In such imperfect manner as the time will allow I shall endeavor to show you how this subject appeared to the chief thinkers in England and reproduce their state of mind. Let it be understood in the first place that I do not come here to air my own opinions or even to talk about logic at all but purely and solely about a branch of history,-the history of logical thought in the British Islands. I am under the necessity therefore of treating it in an altogether fragmentary manner and you must not be surprized that I leave quite out of account some of the most famous names. I have limited the subject to British Logicians, but even with this limitation I have a subject which would require for an adequate treatment not less than ten times the number of lectures I have to give. The president requested me to deliver nine lectures upon the history of logic. ![]()
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