Manual of Elementary Logic - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Section I.?Conceptions. 1. In unfolding the nature of Conceptions, as also, of Judgment and Reasoning, it will be necessary occasionally to repeat a few things, which were unavoidably introduced by way of anticipation in our brief preliminary exposition. 2.. Conceptions stand contrasted with Intuitions, which cognize single presentations,, 0 .- I, Conception and whether external or internal, whether Intnition corn- bodies or states of consciousness, im- pare(. mediately and intuitively. Conceptions, on the other hand, grasp (con-capio) a plu- " r i / i Conception rality in one, through the medium of grasps a piural- a common sign or mark, whereby ymone, they are, so far forth, represented. This plurality may be of objects thus brought to This plurality, . may be either unity in a common genus, by a common of objeote or mark or resembling quality, as the marks, included under a common whole class of red things are brought name. to unity, or classified by the common mark of redness. Or it may be a plurality of marks or attributes under one name. As hexagon includes the tV9 E ressed b a mars, rectilineal figure and six sides. General Word. Another aspect of the same truth is, Conception is that act or product of the mind which is expressed by a General Word. And hence, 3. Conception is that product of the mind which, results from Generalization.whereby many Formal Definl- ' . tion of Oonoep- individuals are combined in one class, through one or more similar qualities, and are indicated by a common term. Thus, certain pieces of iron-ore are observed to have the property of attracting iron, and are generalized into one class Inv lves Ab un(er tne name Magnets. It is obvious atraotion. that, in attending to this qual...