Word: logic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Peabody will be absent during the year. Philosophy 5 will, therefore, not be given. Dr. Santayana will discontinue course 11 and give instead, a course on Aesthetics. Another change is made in Philosophy 1a. Logic, under Professor Palmer, will last only until the Christmas Recess, and from then to the Mid-years, there will be lectures by several members of the department. The second half year remains the same. Course 1b is also rearranged so that Dr. Santayana will lecture on ancient philosophy for the first half-year and Professor Royce on modern philosophy for the second. Philosophy...
Melodrama is the play of the people fashioned by them to suit their own taste. The people does not trouble itself with logic. They like their sensibility touched and their nerves shaken. They are in revolt against every form of authority...
First, a want of logic, almost absurdity. characters say the opposite of what they would naturally say, and do the opposite of what they would naturally do. They do not speak; they declaim. The situations are exceptional and extraordinary. The characters are all conventional: The old man, the young man pursued by fate, the traitor, the mysterious man who knows everything...
...Peirce '59 will give a course on reasoning and the logic of things at the rooms of the Cambridge Conferences, 168 Brattle street, on Monday and Thursday evenings in February and March at 8 o'clock, Mr. Peirce is a brother of Dean Peirce of the Graduate School, and has been a lecturer on logic at the Johns Hopkins University and was also a member of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Peirce is the most prominent logician in the United States. His improvements in the Algebra of Logic are of world wide reputation...
...special topics of Mr. Peirce's lectures will be as follows: Feb. 10, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life; Feb. 14, Types of Reasoning; Feb. 17, The Logic of Relatives; Feb. 21, The First Rule of Logic; Feb. 24, Training in Reasoning; Feb. 28, Causation and Force; March 3, Habit; March 7, The Logic of Continuity...