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&EVIEW. u Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame. 1 ' — -Pope.
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Art . \ . —Systematic Education , § -c . ( Concluded from p . 637 . ) T 11 HE art of Logic is , we think , JL very properly deferred , till at least an outline of Mental Philosophy has been laid before the reader . The
youthful inquirer ought to have some general idea of the powers of the human mind , before he is instructed how to exercise them . Logic is the art by which the understanding is directed in the ascertainment of truth , and in the
communication of it to others . It is commonly divided into four parts , perception , judgment , reasoning and method . But the author adopts a division less scientific in form , but better adapted
as he conceives , to answer the leadiug object above stated . He arranges his matter under the following heads , Ideas , Words , Classification and Definition , Propositions , Evidence , Sophisms , Syllogisms and Pursuit of Truth .
For Ideas , as the relics of sensation , variously combined by association , and modified by the exercise of the understanding , he refers to his former section in Mental Philosophy , pp . ^ 19 , &c , and only adds a few observations on Mr . Locke ' s phraseology respecting simple and complex ideas , which ,
though formed before the doctrine of association had been so thoroughly investigated , on the whole . sufficiently corresponds with the Hartleian acceptation of them ; on substances—their real essence , of which we know nothing but that , as their resulting properties differ , their essences must also themselves be different , and their
nominal essence , which is that collection of properties from which our notions are derived ; on modes , essential and accidental , simple and mixed ; on relations , which are of great importance , the duties of life depending upon them , and which may be very clear , though the subjects of them may be imperfectly known .
As on the right use of Words depends , in a great degree , the improvement and right direction of our intellectual and moral principles , the
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attention which is ? given by a wellconducted classical education to call into exercise the power of discrimination , and produce accuracy in the choice and use of words , and consequent correctness and distinctness of ideas , is of greater importance than some who have derived mere verbal
knowledge are willing to admit . The Author refers here as before to what he had said on words , as influenced by association , pp . 301 , &c . He then proceeds to point out the three ways in which names are given to new combinations or modifications of ideas
viz . by the formation of names altogether new , by the combination of old words , and by the extension of terms already in use . Etymology is often of advantage in tracing out the import of words ; and also of checking the changes that might otherwise
take place in their appropriation . These changes , and the various senses consequent upon them , are a frequent cause of ambiguity ; which often also arises from a figurative use of words , and from the intervention of the passions and affections . The meaning of
a word may be conveyed in three ways , bv observing how it is used in different intelligible combinations , which is the way in which the meaning of most words is learned by association in the periods of early culture ; by explaining it by some other
combination of words , or by some one equivalent word , which is the definition of the name , or by stating the parts and properties of the objects which distinguish it from every other , which is the definition of the thing , or definition properly so * called .
An acquaintance with Classification is of great importance . A set of individuals agreeing- in certain particulars , are thus formed into a species ; a set of species , which , though
distinguishable from each other , have certain points of resemblance , form a genus ; several genera having-common properties , form a superior genus z and several of these form a genus general issimum . Modern naturalists have adopted pi ore terms than these two ;
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&Eview. U Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame. 1 ' — -Pope.
&EVIEW . u Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . ' — -Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 704, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/40/
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