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...il through ignorance; (6) the experiment of eliciting from the slave boy the mathematical truth which is latent in him, and (7) the remark that he is ... ...s he makes for himself new modes of expression more akin to the Aristotelian logic. Y et amid all these varieties and incongruities, there is a common... ...armenides, the personal form which is attributed to them in the Timaeus, the logical character which they assume in the Soph ist and Philebus, and th... ...ice, temper ance, holiness and the like; from the other as hy potheses, or mathematical truths or principles. In the T imaeus, which in the series o... ...osophy . Plato also left behind him a most potent instru ment, the forms of logic—arms ready for use, but not yet taken out of their armoury. They we... ...ng to do with facts of science. On the other hand, the ancient and mediaeval logic retained a continuous influ ence over it, and a form like that of ... ...re too much magnified by the glasses through which they are seen. The common logic says ‘the greater the extension, the less the com prehension,’ and...

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..., if cunningly planted down, were no despicable pile, or floodgate, in the logical wear. For the rest, be it nowise apprehended, that any per- sonal c... ...n petto thy remarkable Volume on Clothes. Nay, was there not in that clear logically founded Transcendentalism of thine; still more, in thy meek, sile... ...ough the Narrative portions, a certain show of outward method; but of true logical method and sequence there is too little. Apart from its multifariou... ...ibiting. Our Professor’s method is not, in any case, that of common school Logic, where the truths all stand in a row, each holding by the skirts of t... ...r-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. The whole ... ... whole world must smart for it: will not the price of beaver rise? It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the c...

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...properties that time and space and form have given them, and consider them mathematically in the abstract, as geometry treats substances from which it... ...space puts all human science out of sight beneath the grandeur of a divine logic. According to the Seer, the inhabitants of Jupiter will not cultivate... ...er up his ideas. Presently he continued, as follows:— “ After establishing mathematically that man lives eternally in spheres of either a lower or a h... ...ngs compose—in order to fit the problem of Creation to the measure of your logic—a block of finite Matter; but were it infinite, God would still not b... ... inexplicable, incomprehensible, to the existence of which I may apply the logical dilemma which, as we have seen, prevents you from believing in God.... ...men comprehend the necessity of considering substances not merely in their mathematical properties but also in their en- tirety, in their occult relat... ...h is doubt- less solved in the march of worlds by the intersection of some mathematical lines whose course is visible to the eye of spir- its who have...

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...ther I inherited Vivacity, fancy, language; From my father will, judgment, logic. All honor to them For what service I was to the people! 61 Edgar Le... ...e, Or the foundations; let us see the cause of the fall. And compasses and mathematical instruments, In irony of the under tenants, ignorance Of deter...

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...alk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagi- nation. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have... ...ns removed from the obvious, by incredible assumptions, which rendered his logic impenetrable to any reasonable person. I learned all this later. That...

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...k to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded per- son with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics 4 Some Reminiscences command all my ... ... removed from the obvious, by incredible assumptions, which ren- dered his logic impenetrable to any reasonable per- son. I learned all this later. Th...

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...ac requisitioned. His reserved and judicious nature, his fore- thought and mathematical reflection, were seen in his meth- ods of work. The greater pa... ...In such a case suicide is only a way to escape a thousand deaths; it seems logical to take it. Alexandre Crottat gave him his arm, and tried to make h... ...lexandre Crottat’s that evening to re- ceive their money. The all-powerful logic of the enamored Popinot triumphed in the end over Cesar’s scruples, t...

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...d like to know what greater com- pulsion there can be for any thing than a mathematical cer- tainty. I studied math—” “V ery true, Richard,” interrupt... ...material whether it be one or the other,” interrupted Miss T emple, with a logic that contained more feeling than reason; “I know Natty to be innocent... ...ut, though stimulated by mental excitement and wine, two hours of abstruse logic were thrown away on this subject; for he declined their advice, with ...

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...that this ship be- came a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question as to things that grow; one side holding that the ship rem... ...eece. T o this purpose he not only procured masters to teach them grammar, logic, and rhetoric, but had for them also preceptors in modeling and drawi... ...cor- dance with ancient laws and usages, as though they had been immutable mathematical truths; and yet fell, I know not how, into some weaknesses, gi... ...dinary one, nor lightly- undertaken, but depended as it went on, like some mathematical proposi- tion, on a variety of important admissions, and proce... ...y and fled to Seleucia, upon the river Tigris, and, being desired to teach logic among them, arrogantly replied, that the dish was too little to hold ...

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...ese courses included some of the more elementary aspects of psychology and logic and set me thinking and reading fur- ther. From the first, Logic as i... ...l instrument. Now I was first struck by the fact that while my teachers in Logic seemed to be assuring me I always thought in this form;- “M is P ... ...more than a test of consistency in statement. But I found the textbooks of logic disposed to ignore my customary method of reason- ing altogether or t... ...nto the laws of thought and into the postulates upon which the syllogistic logic is based, and it slowly be- came clear to me that from my point of vi... ...om my point of view, the point of view of one who seeks truth and reality, logic assumed a be- lief in the objective reality of classification of whic... ...hysical sciences rests upon the ignoring of individualities; and like many mathematical conventions, its great practical conve- nience is no proof wha...

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...lear, a scientific language you de- mand, without ambiguity, as precise as mathematical for- mulae, and with every term in relations of exact logical ... ...cise as mathematical for- mulae, and with every term in relations of exact logical con- sistency with every other. It will be a language with all the ... ... the whole intellectual basis of mankind is established, that the rules of logic, the systems of counting and measure- ment, the general categories an... ...mte-ism, in fact, of the blankest description. But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since ... ...e of Words in Reasoning (particularly), and to Bosanquet’s Es- sentials of Logic, Bradley’s Principles of Logic, and Sigwart’s Logik; the lighter mind... ...nd mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his book a rude sketch of a philosoph... ...tion, just as the introduction of a fresh term to an intricate irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers a...

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...id for me to have a special course of private lessons in math- ematics. My mathematical master was the librarian of the college, and allowed me to hel... ...to make me 29 Balzac share in his beliefs concerning angels. In his least logical argu- ments there were still amazing observations as to the powers ... ...asks of both. Thus, if one of us had a book to finish and to return to the mathematical master, he could read on with- out interruption while the othe... ...e man, is fettered in its manifestation. From this followed a multitude of logical explanation as to those results of our twofold na- ture which appea... ...ch Lambert would never aban- don, cherishing it even when the sword of his logic was cut- ting off their dazzling wings. “Heaven,” he would say, “must... ...n the ramifi- cations by which it is inevitably connected with the phreno- logical observations of one and the speculations on physiog- nomy of the ot... ...ot know the Swiss doctor’s writings— which are few and brief. A simple and logical inference from these principles led him 43 Balzac to perceive that... ...he form of demonstrations, so as to give to many of his theories an almost mathematical certainty . The works of Cardan, a man gifted with singular po... ...on, and added to them a doctrine, a basis of reasoning, that may be termed mathematical. “Any man who plunges into these religious waters, of which th...

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...ne of the advantages of living in Charles Street that stables were near. The logic of her conduct was none of the clearest; for if she had been alone ... ... 48 The Bostonians of patches of remembered eloquence, of childish lapses of logic, of flights of fancy which might indeed have had success at Topeka; ... ...ion; and, on the other hand, how weak Verena would be on the statistical and logical side if she herself should not bring up the rear. Together, in sh... ... the hand of fate, of which the small, ignoble scenes unrolled themselves so logically. The denouement would of course be in keeping, and would consis... ...sn’t so majestic, I would have it pulled down.’ ‘That is delightful feminine logic!’ Ransom answered. ‘If, when women have the conduct of affairs, the... ...eded, in the same cool, mild, deliberate tone, as if he were demonstrating a mathematical solution, ‘you ought to know that your connection with all t...

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... compass, the distance, and the speed. I should not call it anything more than mathematical certainty.” “Strain!” he snorted. “Simple as A, B, C! Math... ...d more than the cold conclusions of reason. When viewed in the light of formal logic, there is not one thing of which to be ashamed; but nevertheless ... ... I was yeasty and acrawl.” “Then you are an individualist, a materialist, and, logically, a hedonist.” “Big words,” he smiled. “But what is a hedonist...

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...gune, and indeed he was anything but clear about the entire situation. His logical pro- cesses, his emotions and his imagination seemed playing some s... ... said, in the manner of a man convinced against his will. He perceived his logic insufficient. He suddenly thrust the delicacies of argument aside. Ce... ... line. Next day he wrote a note, and two mornings later he started for his mathematical duffers an hour before it was absolutely necessary, and instea...

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... insignificant person.” “Do not speak thus, for your reply evinces neither logic nor phi- losophy; everything is relative, my dear young friend, from ... ... combined with an aston- ishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation,... ...ia, since their first acquaintance, had been on all points so rational and logical, so wonderfully sagacious, in fact, that he could not understand ho... ...count,” cried Morcerf, “you are at fault — you, one of the most formidable logicians I know — and you must see it clearly proved that instead of being... ...ent.” “It is possible,” said Morcerf; “my father has in his study a genea- logical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made com- mentari... ... have attained the goal at which I aim, for all the rest I have reduced to mathematical terms. What men call the chances of fate — namely, ruin, chang... ...you set a higher value on the title of friend.” Alexandre Dumas 573 “Your logic is most powerful, Valentine, but say what you will, I can never renou...

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...portance to communicate to him. Artemidorus, a Cnidian, a teacher of Greek logic, and by that means so far acquainted with Brutus and his friends as t... ...orthy; so that we should need a very nice and subtle 303 Plutarch’s Lives logic of discrimination to detect and establish the distinc- tions between ... ...of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed, and throwing down a little mathematical table that stood by, made such a noise, that the servants, hea... ...himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the Roman idiom. For he it was, as it is sa... ...d majesty all the panegyrical orators, and in accuracy and science all the logicians and rhetoricians of his day; that Cicero was highly educated, and... ...ed, amongst the rest that of Philostratus, a man, of all the professors of logic that ever were, the most ready in extempore speaking, but quite desti...

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...now more about books of chivalry than I do about Villalpando’s elements of logic; so if that be all, you may safely tell me what you please.” 367 Cer... ...llences of the sword, with such conclusive arguments, and such figures and mathematical proofs, that all were convinced of the value of the science, a...

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...heir minds as to the expediency of a certain event. ‘That is what you call logic;—isn’t it? Anything unex- pected is odd?’ ‘Lord Silverbridge, I won’t... ...dge, I won’t be laughed at. You have been at Oxford and ought to know what logic is. ’ ‘That at any rate is ill-natured, ’ he replied, turning very re... ...nt in regard to the colour of the Dean’s lodge had stood in the way of his logical studies,—so that he was unable to put his argument into proper shap... ...obably rather than in ignorance, whether the victory was to be achieved by mathematical or classi- cal proficiency. Gerald turned and looked at him. ...

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..., and at the table sat Mr. Ernescliffe, hard at work with calculations and mathematical instruments. Ethel would not for the world that any one should... ...ore here’s a man that is not good? Ah, ha! Meta, you can see that is false logic, though I’ve forgot- ten mine. And pray, miss, what are we to say to ... ...e details; but he says it is all coming right, and will make him a capital mathematical scholar, though he cannot add up pounds, shillings, and pence....