CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. ''"s« 



^ 1 . A definition at the commencement 



of a subject must be provisional . 1 



2. Is logic the art and science of rea- 



soning ? 2 



3. Or the art and science of the pursuit 



of truth? ib. 



4. Logic is concerned with inferences, 



not with intuitive truths . . 3 



5. Relation of logic to the other sci- 



ences 5 



6. Its utility, how shown ... 6 



7. Definition of logic stated and illus- 



trated ~ 



BOOK I. 



OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the necessity of commencing with an Anaylsis 



of Language. j 



^ 1. Theory of names, why a necessary 



part of logic 11 



2. First step in the analysis of Propo- 



sitions 12 



3. Names must be studied before 



Things 13 



CHAPTER II. 



Of Names, 

 (f 1. Names are names of things, not of 



our ideas 15 



2. Words which are not names, but 



parts of names 



3. General and Singular names . 



4. Concrete and Abstract . 



5. Connotative and Non-connotative 



6. Positive and Negative . 



7. Relative and Absolute . 



8. Univocal and ^Equivocal 



CHAPTER III. 

 Of the Things denoted by Names, 

 i) 1. Necessity of an enumeration of 

 Namable Things. The Categories 

 of Aristotle 



2. Ambiguity of the most general 



names 



3. Feelings, or states of consciousness 



4. Feelings must be distinguished 



from their physical antecedents. 

 Perceptions, what 



5. "Volitions, and Actions, what . 



6. Substance and Attribute 



Pago 

 ^ 7. Body 38 



8. Mind 41 



9. Qualities 42 



10. Relations 44 



11. Resemblance 46 



12. Quantity 43 



13. All attributes of bodies are grounded 



upon states of consciousness . 49 



14. So also all attributes of mind . 50 



15. Recapitulation . . . .51 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of Propositions. 

 () 1. Nature and office of the copula . 52 



2. Affirmative and Negative proposi- 



tions 54 



3. Simple and Complex . , .55 



4. Universal, Particular, and Singular 57 



CHAPTER V. 



Of the Import of Propositions. 

 § 1. Doctrine that a proposition is the 

 expression of a relation between 

 two ideas 59 



2. Doctrine that it is the expression of 



a relation between the meanings 



of two names . . . .01 



3. Doctrine that it consists in referring 



something to, or excluding some- 

 thing from, a class . . .63 



4. What it really is . . . .66 



5. It asserts (or denies) a sequence, a 



coexistence, a simple existence, a 

 causation 67 



6. — or a resemblance . . . .69 



7. Propositions of which the terms are 



abstract 71 



CHAPTER VI. 



Of Propositions merely Verbal. 

 (J 1. Essential and Accidental proposi- 

 tions 73 



2. All essential propositions are identi- 



cal propositions . . . .74 



3. Individuals have no essences . . 77 



4. Real propositions, how distinguished 



from verbal T8 



5. Two modes of representing the im- 



port of a Real proposition . . 79 



CHAPTER VII. 



Of the Nature of Classification, and the Five 



Predicables. 

 ij 1. Classification, how connected with 



Naming 80 



