CONTENTS 



OP 

 THE FIRST VOLUME. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGB 



1. A definition at the commencement of a subject must be 



provisional ...... 1 



2. Is logic the art and science of reasoning ? . . .2 



3. Or the art and science of the pursuit of truth ? .3 



4. Logic is concerned with inferences, not with intuitive truths 5 



5. Eelation of logic to the other sciences . . .8 



6. Its utility, how shown . . . . .10 



7. Definition of logic stated and illustrated . . .11 



BOOK I. 



OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



CHAPTEB I. Of the Necessity of commencing with an Analysis of 

 Language. 



1. Theory of names, why a necessary part of logic . . 17 



2. First step in the analysis of Propositions . . .18 



3. Names must be studied before Things . . .21 



CHAPTER II. Of Names. 



1. Names are names of things, not of our ideas . . 23 



2. Words which are not names, but parts of names . . 24 



3. General and Singular names . . . .26 



4. Concrete and Abstract . . . . .29 



5. Connotative and Non-connotative . . . .31 



6. Positive and Negative . . . . .42 



7. Relative and Absolute . . . . .44 



8. Univocal and ^Equivocal . . . .47 



