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M'Cosh (J.)_ continued. 



which the vicivs of the school of Locke and Whately are regarded 

 by the author as very defective, and the views of the school of Kant 

 and Hamilton altogether erroneous. The author believes thai 

 errors spring far more frequently from obscure, inadequate, indis- 

 tinct, and confused Notions, and from not placing the Notions in 

 their proper relation in judgment, than from Ratiocination. In 

 this treatise, therefore, the Notion (with the term, and the Relation 

 of Thought to Language) will be found to occupy a larger relative 

 place than in any logical work written since the time of the famous 

 Art of Thinking. "The amount of summarized information 

 which it contains is very great ; and it is the only work on the very 

 important subject with which it deals. Never was such a work 

 so much needed as in the present day." London Quarterly 

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