Logic
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Logicians · logic · logical · logicians · the art of reasoning
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On Moral Ends
The branch of philosophy concerned with reasoning, definition, and argument, in which Cicero finds Epicurus wholly unequipped.
he hands down no method by which a chain of reasoning is constructed and concluded;
The Game of Logic
The formal discipline being taught through the game, involving propositions, syllogisms, and fallacies.
They have a sort of nervous dread of Attributes beginning with a negative particle.
You will find these seven words--PROPOSITION, ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL--charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic.
And so you think, do you, that the chief use of Logic, in real life, is to deduce Conclusions from workable Premisses, and to satisfy yourself that the Conclusions, deduced by other people, are correct?