Word: logic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Latin, 1, 2 (9 A. M.). JUN. PR. LOGIC...
Tuesday, 13th, JUN. & SOPH. LOGIC, Memorial Hall...
JUNIOR PHILOSOPHY. - Section IV. will recite their first lesson in Logic on Monday, February 24, at 10 A. M.; Section V. at 11 A. M.; Sophomores taking Logic as an elective, on Wednesday, March 1, at 11 A. M. All in the Lecture Room on the lower floor in Boylston. Lesson, the first in Jevon's Logic...
...effort, - I refer to the theory of Universal Necessity. I should, however, scarce think of seriously refuting such ludicrous reasoning as the writer in the last Advocate indulges himself in upon this subject, but subjoin it as a specimen of the inaccurate and hasty writing of that martinet in logic: "Such facts . . . . are unhealthy; they need to be supplemented by what Heine would call enthusiasm of the idea, or by some other powerful emotion. Whether it is the province of the newspaper to furnish this or not I do not care for the present, it is enough that the Nation...
...here becomes necessary to summon this spirit from its vasty deep into such shallow water as the elements of logic, where he will learn that affirmative propositions do not distribute their predicates, and that the middle term of a syllogism should be used univocally. It is also necessary to remind him of the generally acknowledged fact, that a cause is not identical with its result. Indifference, a momentary consequence of liberal training, is not the cause of proper mental development, except so far as, in the sense of an unbiassed mind, it is a prerequisite of liberal thought...