Footnotes to Formal Logic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The psychologist, on the one hand, and the metaphysician and the epistemologist, on the other, have crowded our present day discussions in the field of pure logic into a very narrow and uncomfortable position. NO sooner does the logician raise the question as to the origin and nature of the thinking process, than the psychologist warns him that he is trespassing in fields. Not his. Especially is this true when we venture to discuss such questions as the process whereby judgment develops into infer ence or is depressed into conception. This we are told is not logic, but genetic psychology. On the other hand, when the logician raises the question as to the nature of knowledge in gen eral, he is again rebuked for passing into the domain of meta physics, epistemology or ontology. It has been said that if the logician should accept these restrictions which his neighbors have imposed upon his field, there would be little left of logic, except a mere collection of misleading formulae coupled with a little ele mentary grammar.

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