Word: logic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Alexander Bain has been made Emeritus Professor of Logic at Aberdeen University...
...Maude is a student of philosophy, and, with a truly Spencerean somersault of logic, he reduces me ad absurdum. The burden of his proof is that "J. N. M." contradicts himself. Think of this! I charge the Brethren with halfness, with not having bravery enough to take a decided stand, either Orthodox or Liberal; with leaving its constitution in such a way that no Unitarian or Universalist can, with self respect, join the society - for such could be members not by virtue of a clean-cut statement of the constitution, but by its "fair" interpretation, which means by twisting...
Professor: "Miss C., give an example of a true conclusion drawn from two false premises." Miss C. - "Logic is an easy study. That's false. I don't like easy studies. That's false. *** I don't like logic. That's true." - Vassar Miscellany...