CONTENTS 



OP 



THE FIRST VOLUME. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



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? . .'4 



4. Logic is concerned with inferences, not with intuitive truths 6 



5. Relation of logic to the other sciences . . . 10 



6. Its utility, how shown . . . . .12 



7. Definition of logic stated and illustrated . . .13 



BOOK I. 



OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



CHAPTER I. Of the necessity of commencing with an Analysis 

 of Language. 



1. Theory of names, why a necessary part of logic . .19 



2. First step in the analysis of Propositions . . .21 



3. Names must be studied before Things . . .24 



CHAPTER II. Of Names. 



1 . Names are names of things, not of our ideas . . 27 



2. Words which are not names, but parts of names . . 28 



3. General and Singular names . . . .32 



4. Concrete and Abstract . . . . .34 

 6. Connotative and Non-connotative . . . .37 



6. Positive and Negative ... . . .51 



7. Relative and Absolute . . . . .53 



8. Univocal and ^Equivocal . . . . .57 



