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REFORMED LOGIC
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
REFORMED LOGIC
A SYSTEM BASED ON
BERKELEY'S PHILOSOPHY
WITH AN ENTIRELY NEW METHOD OF
DIALECTIC
BY
D. B. McLACHLAN
'Spirits are active, indivisible substances; Ideas [objects] are inert,
fleeting, dependent things, which subsist not by themselves, but are
supported by, or exist in minds or spiritual substances....The cause
ofIdeas is an incorporeal active Substance orSpirit.'
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1892
[All rights reserved]
'Looking to the chaotic state of logic text-books at thepresent time, one would be inclined to say that there doesnot exist anywhere a recognised, currently-received body ofspeculation to which the title Logic can be unambiguouslyassigned, and that we must therefore resign the hope ofattaining by any empirical consideration of the receiveddoctrine, a precise determination of the nature and limitsof logical theory.'
PREFACE
The object of the following treatise is to give anintelligible account of the principal facts of Mind,with a method for the right expression and criticismof Reasoning. It is based on principles not beforeapplied to such a purpose. The current systems ofMetaphysic are obscure and difficult simply becausethey start from false premises, not because the natureand operations of Mind cannot, if properly understood,be made as comprehensible to beginners a