item: #1 of 14 id: 10731 author: Schopenhauer, Arthur title: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy date: None words: 30076 flesch: 68 summary: Vulgar people take a huge delight in the faults and follies of great men; and great men are equally annoyed at being thus reminded of their kinship with them. It is only extreme necessity that can compel such men not to betray their feelings, or even to stroke the defects as if they were beautiful additions. keywords: art; beauty; case; character; dialectic; fact; genius; intellect; interest; kind; knowledge; life; man; matter; men; nature; nay; opponent; proposition; reason; trick; truth; use; way; world cache: 10731.txt plain text: 10731.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 1598 author: Plato title: Euthydemus date: None words: 21080 flesch: 77 summary: And should we be happy by reason of the presence of good things, if they profited us not, or if they profited us? Well, Cleinias, but if you have the use as well as the possession of good things, is that sufficient to confer happiness? keywords: art; cleinias; crito; ctesippus; dionysodorus; euthydemus; good; knowledge; man; men; socrates; things; use; wisdom cache: 1598.txt plain text: 1598.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 2412 author: Aristotle title: The Categories date: None words: 14520 flesch: 64 summary: Some intermediate qualities have names, such as grey and sallow and all the other colours that come between white and black; in other cases, however, it is not easy to name the intermediate, but we must define it as that which is not either extreme, as in the case of that which is neither good nor bad, neither just nor unjust. (iii) 'privatives' and 'positives' have reference to the same subject. Other things, again, are both predicable of a subject and present in a subject. keywords: case; contrary; man; species; subject; substance cache: 2412.txt plain text: 2412.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 31796 author: Minto, William title: Logic, Inductive and Deductive date: None words: 99462 flesch: 60 summary: The first object, then, of the investigator of Nature is to discover such _formæ_, in order to be able to effect the transformation of bodies. Occam himself speaks of the subject as the primary signification, and the attribute as the secondary, because the answer to What is white? is Something informed with whiteness, and the subject is in the nominative case while the attribute is in an oblique case (_Logic_, part I. chap. keywords: argument; aristotle; attributes; cause; chapter; class; conclusion; connexion; definition; division; effect; example; fact; figure; footnote; form; general; good; greek; individual; induction; inductive; inference; knowledge; law; logic; major; man; matter; meaning; method; mill; mind; minor; names; nature; negative; observation; particular; predicate; premiss; premisses; principle; proposition; question; science; sense; socrates; speech; subject; syllogism; syllogistic; term; things; thought; time; truth; way; word cache: 31796.txt plain text: 31796.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 36801 author: Holyoake, George Jacob title: A Logic of Facts; Or, Every-day Reasoning date: None words: 38170 flesch: 64 summary: Many such truths are required to make a logical truth. No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths; no rules of art can render our knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself. keywords: argument; case; common; conclusion; evidence; experience; facts; form; general; induction; instance; knowledge; logic; man; mill; mind; nature; new; observation; people; philosophy; power; premises; proposition; reason; reasoning; right; science; sense; subject; syllogism; terms; things; truth; words; world cache: 36801.txt plain text: 36801.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 38141 author: Howard, Delton Thomas title: John Dewey's logical theory date: None words: 49401 flesch: 59 summary: It is proposed to follow the lead of the subject-matter as far as possible; to discover what topics interested Professor Dewey, how he dealt with them, and what conclusions he arrived at. This plan has an especial advantage when applied to a body of doctrine which, like Professor Dewey's, does not possess a systematic form of its own, since it avoids the distortion which a more rigid method would be apt to produce. keywords: activity; cit; consciousness; dewey; experience; fact; ibid; judgment; knowledge; logic; meaning; method; mind; moral; nature; philosophy; process; psychological; psychology; reality; self; situation; standpoint; theory; thought cache: 38141.txt plain text: 38141.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 39964 author: Dietzgen, Joseph title: The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. date: None words: 121935 flesch: 59 summary: Since reason, or the faculty of thought, never appears by itself, but always in connection with other things, we are continually compelled to pass from the faculty of thought to other things, which are its objects, and to treat of their connections. In order that light may shine, that the sun may warm, and revolve in its course, there must be space and other things which may be lighted and warmed and passed. keywords: absolute; brain; cause; concept; conception; concrete; consciousness; end; existence; experience; fact; faculty; form; general; good; human; individual; infinite; intellect; knowledge; life; logic; material; matter; means; mind; nature; object; order; parts; perceptions; phenomena; philosophy; question; reason; right; science; sense; soul; special; study; things; thought; time; truth; understanding; universal; universe; way; words; work; world cache: 39964.txt plain text: 39964.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 40665 author: Dewey, John title: Studies in Logical Theory date: None words: 134350 flesch: 52 summary: Because the _content of judgment_ is continuous; judgment is always engaged with the determination of a related totality. That is to say, there is a region of _personal_ experience (mainly emotive or affectional) already recognized as a sphere of value. keywords: action; case; character; conditions; consciousness; content; economic; end; existence; experience; fact; function; general; hypothesis; idea; judgment; knowledge; logic; lotze; material; matter; meaning; means; nature; object; objective; physical; point; predicate; present; problem; process; purpose; question; reality; reference; relation; self; sense; situation; subject; system; theory; thought; valuation; value; view; way; world cache: 40665.txt plain text: 40665.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 40794 author: Dewey, John title: Essays in Experimental Logic date: None words: 110850 flesch: 53 summary: But equally, of course, there is no question of _inference_ to other times. But as long as I judge, _value_ is indeterminate. keywords: action; case; conditions; data; existence; experience; fact; given; ideas; inference; inquiry; judgment; knowledge; logic; lotze; man; material; matter; meaning; means; mind; nature; object; perception; point; present; problem; process; question; reference; reflection; relation; science; scientific; sense; situation; specific; subject; terms; theory; things; thinking; thought; truth; value; view; way; world cache: 40794.txt plain text: 40794.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 41838 author: Atkinson, William Walker title: The Art of Logical Thinking; Or, The Laws of Reasoning date: None words: 34289 flesch: 61 summary: Animal_ is a _genus_ of which _man_ is a _species_; while _man_, in turn, is a _genus_ of which _Caucasian_ is a _species_; and _Caucasian_, in turn, becomes a _genus_ of which _Socrates_ becomes a species. we find that the concept _horse_ is contained in the concept _animal_ and the judgment that _a horse is an animal_ may be considered as a Judgment by Extension. keywords: animal; class; concept; conclusion; facts; form; general; horse; induction; inductive; judgment; man; process; proposition; qualities; reasoning; subject; syllogism; term; things; truth cache: 41838.txt plain text: 41838.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 4763 author: Carroll, Lewis title: The Game of Logic date: None words: 17236 flesch: 93 summary: Hence the two compartments, No. 9 and No. 15, are both 'EMPTY'; and we must place a grey counter in EACH of them, thus:-- ----------- |0 | | | --|-- | | | | | I think you will see, without further explanation, that the two results, separately, are ----------- ----------- | | | |0 | | | --|-- | | --|-- | | |0 | 0| | | | | | | |--|--|--|--| |--|--|--|--| | | | | | | | | | | | --|-- | | --|-- | | | | |0 | | ----------- ----------- and that these two, when combined, give us ----------- |0 | | | --|-- | | |0 | 0| | |--|--|--|--| | | | | | | --|-- | |0 | | ----------- We have now to mark the two positive portions, some x are m' and some y are m. keywords: ---|-- |; y. |; | ---|--; | |; | |--|--|--|--|; |---|---| |; |---|---|---|---| |; |--|--|--|--| |; |0 | cache: 4763.txt plain text: 4763.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 52945 author: McLachlan, D. B. title: Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic date: None words: 51429 flesch: 61 summary: Standards can only mediate comparisons between _abstract_ properties, for if they contained all the concrete properties of the compared objects they would, by supposition, be as unmanageable as the latter. These objects are necessarily classified according to their phenomenal appearance only, and such ideas lack an essential characteristic of true general ideas. keywords: argument; body; case; category; class; conclusion; consciousness; energy; experience; fact; fallacy; form; general; good; idea; inference; intellect; knowledge; language; logic; man; matter; means; mind; objects; parts; perception; power; precedent; reason; reasoning; relation; subject; things; thought; use cache: 52945.txt plain text: 52945.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 59590 author: Keynes, John Neville title: Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic date: None words: 36 flesch: 54 summary: Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic John Neville Keynes London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906 Because of nature of the source material , it was decided that a text version was impractical. keywords: macmillan cache: 59590.txt plain text: 59590.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 6560 author: Stock, St. George William Joseph title: Deductive Logic date: None words: 73478 flesch: 74 summary: Now not only are common terms the results of comparison, but singular terms, or the names of individuals, are so too. The nature of singular terms has not given rise to much dispute; but the nature of common terms has been the great battle-ground of logicians. keywords: affirmative; attributes; b c; case; class; common; conclusion; conversion; definition; division; fallacy; figure; form; inference; intension; logic; major; man; men; middle; minor; negative; particular; predicate; premiss; premisses; proposition; rule; simple; subject; syllogism; term; thing; thought; truth; universal cache: 6560.txt plain text: 6560.txt