A Guide to Syllogism: Or a Manual Comprehending an Account of the Manner of Disputation Now Practised in the Schools at Cambridge; With Specimen of ... Schools, and of Junior Students at the

Excerpt from A Guide to Syllogism: Or a Manual Comprehending an Account of the Manner of Disputation Now Practised in the Schools at Cambridge; With Specimen of the Different Acts Adapted to the Use of the Higher Forms in Grammar Schools, and of Junior Students at the University
The object of the compiler, in arranging these pages, is to lead the student, by the shortest path, to an acquaintance with the more interesting and practical parts of Logic. It appears to him, that there are many persons who would decline the perusal of a treatise on Apprehension, the Divisions of Nouns, and the different sorts of Predicables, who might he interested in examining the nature of Propositions, and the principle on which an Inference is conclusively drawn.
He is confirmed in this opinion, by having often observed, that youths of an ingenious and intellectual turn, disinclined as they might be to undertake the perusal of a bulky volume upon Logic, are generally gratified when an argument is set before them, in the brief and lucid form of a Syllogism.
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