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...merica she would drop her afterwards.” I complimented Mrs. Church upon her logical mind, but I repudiated this cynical supposition. “I can’t imagine ... ... 51 Henry James an ideal which was perhaps after all charged with as many fallacies as her mother affirmed, she might do something reckless and irreg...

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...armenides, the personal form which is attributed to them in the Timaeus, the logical character which they assume in the Soph ist and Philebus, and th... ...hold on the mind of Europe. Philoso phies come and go; but the detection of fallacies, the framing of definitions, the invention of meth ods still c...

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...nknown to people at a distance. We have no difficulty here in exposing the fallacies and duplici- ties of the authors of the war, but we can’t expect ... ...ake an inter- est in the general science of language and to go into philo- logical points, of course his work would be lighter, and he would have soon... ...gravely, sometimes with exceeding earnestness, and exposed sophistries and fallacies and errors about the incapacity of the black races, &c. There wer... ... Bishop, examining chaplain and theo- 582 Life of John Coleridge Patteson logical professor, with the interludes of voyages which involved intense an... ...ory of Substitution, Satisfaction, &c.?” “Where do you find it?” “Prove it logically from the Bible.” “Show that the early Church held it.” ‘Butler, a... ...he most audacious statements, wholly unsupported by any sound learning and logical reasoning. A man makes a statement, quotes a text or two, which he ...

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...u that way!” Paul sulkily returned to his newspaper and the conversa- tion logically moved on to trains. “What time do we get into Pittsburg?” asked B... ...nd high-class enterprise;” and that “Hamburg, the Big Little City with the Logical Location, where every man is open-handed and every woman a heaven-b... ...ssed Cheering Throng, and Distinguished Man of Affairs had pointed out the Fallacies of Doane. Once, in the rotogravure section of the Sunday Advocate...

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...t, more than the cogency of the new views, kept her from combating certain fallacies in them which had struck her. “Why do you not write yourself, Mr.... ...ee;” and that she might then give herself to whomever she pleased, was her logical deduction. The expo- sure at Besworth, and the partial confirmation... ...t the end of one of their arguments, as he courteously termed this play of logical foils with a baby. “Death,” answered the grave gentleman, striding ...

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...ing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables... ...etting out towards answer of it, he would accumulate formidable apparatus, logical swim-bladders, transcendental life-preservers and other precautiona... ...is still gold to be dug there. But, on the whole, do not think you can, by logical alchemy, distil astral spirits from them; or if you could, that sai... ...l spirits from them; or if you could, that said astral spirits, or defunct logical phantasms, could serve you in anything. What the light of your mind... ...id deserts to the new firm lands of Faith beyond; he pre- ferred to create logical fata-morganas for himself on this hither side, and laboriously sola... ...nto Heaven,—by the modern method, of sticking ostrich- like your head into fallacies on Earth, equally as by the ancient and by all conceivable method... ...f oppressive burdens which is intolerable, which tempts the wisest towards fallacies for relief. These weary groups, pacing the Euston-Square pavement... ...ust say of Edward Sterling, after all his daily explosive sophistries, and fallacies of talk, he had a stubborn instinctive sense of what was manful, ...

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...cise as mathematical for- mulae, and with every term in relations of exact logical con- sistency with every other. It will be a language with all the ... ...imal substance inside, no vegetable without;—what could be simpler or more logical? Nothing upon me but leather and allwool garments, within, cereals,... ...on I felt, as I sat and listened to the botanist entangling himself in the logical net of this wild nonsense. It impressed me as being irrelevant. Whe... ...rates all their institutions. They will have analysed exhaus- tively those fallacies and assumptions that arise between the One and the Many, that hav... ...e inferior but that it corrupts the supe- rior. There is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterm... ...lli- gent outlook; and interwoven with this there is the senti- mental and logical Liberalism that sprang from the stresses of the eighteenth century,...

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...nections. And this is done not merely by the correction of some widespread fallacies as to the effects of the drug; far more it is the result of narra... ... objects not ap- pearing and objects not existing are governed by the same logical construction.* Such being, at that time, the usage of mail-coaches,...

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...er of succession; and Miltonically I include myself; having surely as much logical right to count myself in the series of my own brothers as Milton co... ... in which I came before them: to be a lawful pris- oner, it struck her too logical mind that I must have been caught in some aggressive practices. “Th... ...man should not specially have qualified himself for the service of a theo- logical tournament; and my mother’s range of acquaintance was not very exte... ...adox, Boyle should be taken to mean that these hydrostatic theo- rems were fallacies. But far from it. Boyle solicits attention to these propositions—... ...uch unearned forgiveness upon the army at large? But secondly, in a merely logical sense of practical self-consistency, would it have been rational or...

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...so early in the year too. He says we must send the account to the Ornitho- logical—’ ‘Do you know how wet you are? exclaimed Mrs. Ponsonby, seeing riv... ...by the final exertion of forbearance. He had, indeed, been under two great fallacies on this day,—soothing Charlotte for the grief that was not caused...

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... much of that unfavourable judgment ought in justice to be set down to the fallacies connected with an im- perfect appreciation of facts? To me it is ... ...manship and the vast science of life of Tom Jones; the ineffable irony and logical grasp of Jonathan Wild, might have left us with a slight sense of h...

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... while he is recovering, he cannot help himself, he is forced to listen to logical reasoning, which he can under- stand quite well if it is put clearl... ...give him lessons in the guise of play. I wished to keep his mind free from fallacies, and strove before all things to ac- custom him from childhood to...

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...confess, in the curios- ity of analysing the structure. By what process of logical accretion was this slight “personality,” the mere slim shade of an ... ...ould tell you.” “On the contrary,” said Mrs. Touchett, who rarely missed a logical point; “if I remembered your telling me would be quite superfluous.... ...’s real situation. At present, how- ever, she neither taunted him with his fallacies nor pre- tended that her own confidence was justified; if she wor...

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... treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic....

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...ich necessar- ily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of... ...ch passionate yearning was set in or- der and made ready for use. T o us the fallacies which arise in the pre-Socratic philosophy are trivial and obso... ... which they shed on the history of the human mind. There are indeed many old fallacies which linger among us, and new ones are constantly springing up... ...art of logic. Ancient logic would be the propaedeutic or gate of approach to logical science, nothing more. But to pur- 6 Euthydemus sue such specula... ... It is this stage of philosophy which Plato satirises in the Euthydemus. The fallacies which are noted by him appear trifling to us now, but they were... ...me when the human mind was only with great difficulty disentangled from such fallacies. 12 Euthydemus T o appreciate fully the drift of the Euthydemu...

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... together into a fasciculus by the printer, but having no natural order or logical dependency; generally so vague as to mean nothing. Like the general... ...ust caution the readers of Pope against too much reliance upon the chrono- logical accuracy of his editors. All are scandalously careless; and general... ...s in the extraordinary value of the life considered separately for itself. Logically, it is not allowable to say that here; and, considering the princ... ...s the case of Lamb, there is no opening for doubt. He, amongst his Popular Fallacies, admirably illustrates the ne- cessity of evening and artificial ... ... of 1763-64 occupy a considerable space in Goethe’s Memoirs, and with some logical propriety at least, in consideration of their being exclusively att...

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... and apparently indorsed by the people at an election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dre... ...lly repealed by the Compromise of 1850 would show that they are the merest fallacies. I have the report that Judge Dou- glas first brought into Congre...

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...eneral expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebullitions o... ...eux’s dray-horses; and thus, after all, they may simply illustrate the old logical dictum ascribed to some medical man, that the reason why London chi... ...sentially opposed to religions of the book is, not that they have not, but logically that they cannot have, books or documents, inasmuch as they have ... ... foe. And in- stead of giving this account didactically, or according to a logical classification of the various items in the survey, I will give it h... ...again be chanted, that we, being a luxurious nation, must by force of good logical de- pendency be liable to many derivative taints and infirmities wh... ...es I have uni- formly given the victory to myself, he will make a pleasant logical blunder: for the true logic of the case is this: Not that it is mys...

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...itation of the style of Lysias, or as the derivations in the Cratylus or the fallacies of the Euthydemus are a parody of some contemporary Sophist. Th... ... is the object of these para doxes, some have answered that they are a mere logical puzzle, while others have seen in them an Hegelian propaedeutic o... ... or discovering an unexpected result. It also helps to guard us against some fallacies by show ing the consequences which flow from them. In the Parm... ...rocess is real, or in any way an assistance to thought, or , like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the sphere of mat... ...er, or rather, perhaps, would be incapable of understanding them. Numberless fallacies, as we are often truly told, have originated in a confusion of ...

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... 4 Sophist – Plato less the Sophist and Statesman had preceded? The swarm of fallacies which arose in the infancy of mental science, and which was bor... ...e. But he is not to be regarded as the original inventor of any of the great logical forms, with the exception of the syllogism. There is little worth... ...‘abscissio infinti,’ by which the Soph ist is taken, is a real and valuable logical pro cess. Modern science feels that this, like other processes o... ...n be caught in this way. But these divisions and subdivisions were favourite logical exercises of the age in which he lived; and while indulging his d... ...ed; and while indulging his dialectical fancy , and making a contribution to logical method, he delights also to transfix the Eristic Sophist with wea... ...d try our hand upon some more obvious animal, who may be made the subject of logical experiment; shall we say an angler? ‘V ery good.’ In the first pl...

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...ting the whole human race into heaven or hell for the greater convenience of logical division? Are we not at the same time describing them both in sup... ...mould human thought, Plato naturally cast his belief in immortal ity into a logical form. And when we consider how much the doctrine of ideas was als... ... one of words, it is not surpris ing that he should have fallen into verbal fallacies: early logic is always mistaking the truth of the form for the ... ...ly verbal, and is but the expression of an instinctive confidence put into a logical form:—’The soul is immortal because it con tains a principle of ...

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...idea of substance. 18. Different meanings of substance. I endeavour as much as I can to deliver myself from those fallacies which we are apt to put u... ...d disorder do not seldom cast a mist before our eyes, and impose upon our un- derstandings. If we consider, in the fallacies men put upon themselves, ... ... mode of the organs of speech. 12. This art has perplexed religion and justice. Nor hath this mischief stopped in logical niceties, or curious empty ... ...nnexion between homo and vivens by the intervention of animal. 672 Human Understanding Not the only way to detect fallacies. Indeed syllogism is thou... ...etect fallacies. Indeed syllogism is thought to be of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies that are often con- ceale... ...lo- gism, or expert in mode and figure. And if syllogism were the only, or so much as the surest way to detect the fallacies of artificial discourses;...

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...t in the light of Gordon’s requirements. There was all this time an absurd logical twist in his view of things. In the first place he was not to judge... ...nd Bernard steered further and fur- ther away from the liability to detect fallacies in his friend. Gordon had engaged himself to marry, and our criti...

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...ave the 60 Gargantua & Pantagruel same connection, for vice is evil. This logical rule being understood, take these two con- traries, joy and sadness... ...de in modo et figura. For lo, to this end serve the suppositions and parva logicalia. Pannus, pro quo supponit? Confuse, said Bandouille, et distribut... ...bstinate; but he took such course with them that, for all their ergoes and fallacies, he put their backs to the wall, gravelled them in the deepest qu... ...ia, inspire me at this time, re- store unto me my spirits; for this is the logical bridge of asses! Here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty , to h... ... had your eyes in your head, or I am very much out of my understanding and logical sense. It is a gallant thing to see the clearness of (wine, gold,) ... ... the speech of others, I will from that antecedent bring you to infer very logically a most absurd and paradoxi- cal conclusion. But let it pass; I wi...

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... expression on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me... ...eory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theory. Such is the facility with which man ... ...er, my father put into my hands Condillac’s Traité des Sensations, and the logical and meta physical volumes of his Cours d’Etudes; the first (notwi... ...ervice to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho logical doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opini... ...a desire to promote the exercise of other mental faculties than the purely logical, he advised me to make my next exercise in composition one of the o... ...apable of preparing them for the press; in the same manner as his Book of Fallacies had been recently edited by Bingham. I gladly undertook this tas... ... which he made a liberal use, had been much struck with Bentham’s Book of Fallacies ; and the thought had occurred to him that it would be useful to ... ...tention, he very naturally addressed himself to the editor of the Book of Fallacies ; and Bingham, with the assistance of Charles Austin, undertook t... ...d, rehabilitated the name of Logic, and the study of the forms, rules, and fallacies of Ratiocina tion; and Dr. Whewell’s writings had begun to excit...

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...stence of depreciation is not suspected; and it is this which gives to the fallacies of the currency school, principally rep- resented by Mr. Attwood,... ...hat the definition of a science would occupy the same place in the chrono- logical which it commonly does in the didactic order. As a treatise on any ... ... definition of the science itself as should not be liable to well-grounded logical objections. From this remark, we cannot except the authors of eleme... ...itical Economy has remained des- titute of a definition framed on strictly logical principles, or even of, what is more easily to be had, a definition... ... one cause, a knowledge of the law of that cause would, unless there was a logical error in our reasoning, en- able us confidently to predict all the ...

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...e internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent in tellects who once adorned the thinking world. The... ... is not needful for common men to be able to expose all the misstatements or fallacies of an ingenious opponent. That it is enough if there is always ... ...tion to slavery. What is called Christian, but should rather be termed theo logical, morality , was not the work of Christ or the Apostles, but is of...

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...ought humorous situations. There 108 Robert Louis Stevenson will be now a logical nexus between the moral expressed and the machinery employed to exp... ...iority over any other. But the fable does not end here, as perhaps, in all logical strict- ness, it should. It wanders off into a discussion as to whi... ...ng Banquo. He may have some northern poetry of speech, but he has not much logical understand- ing. In his dealings with the supernatural powers he is... ...ry hours when he forgot and remembered her alternately could by the ardent fallacies of youth be read in the light of an attention. She might be far f...