An outline of the necessary laws of thought; a treatise on pure and applied logic . APPLIED LOGIC. § 112. Province of Applied Logic, N the foregoing pages the Laws ofThought have been confidered folely inthemfelves; and their connexion withthe objects they belong to has beenftudioufly kept out of view. It has been fhown thatevery conception confifts of marks, without any at-tempt to explain how the marks are to be obtained;that a judgment of a given quantity, quality and re-lation, can be converted or oppofed, no matter whe-ther it is a true judgment with reference to thematter it fets forth ;

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An outline of the necessary laws of thought; a treatise on pure and applied logic . APPLIED LOGIC. § 112. Province of Applied Logic, N the foregoing pages the Laws ofThought have been confidered folely inthemfelves; and their connexion withthe objects they belong to has beenftudioufly kept out of view. It has been fhown thatevery conception confifts of marks, without any at-tempt to explain how the marks are to be obtained;that a judgment of a given quantity, quality and re-lation, can be converted or oppofed, no matter whe-ther it is a true judgment with reference to thematter it fets forth ; that a given form of fyllogifmis correct and its proof cogent, whether or no thepremifTes it draws from are frivolous, or even incor-rect. In order to underftand aright the laws ofthinking in themfelves, this procedure was neceflary ;for we muft diftinguifli between faults in the formsthemfelves, which we have the means of correctingwithout travelling beyond them, and faults in the 276 OUTLINE OF THE materials of thinking, that cannot be corrected with-out a reference to the o

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