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Excerpt from Elements of Logic, Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana: With Additions, &C
I have accordingly revised it, and made such additions, chie?y in the form of Notes, as I thought likely to increase its utility.
I have taken without scruple whatever appeared most valuable from the works of former writers; especially the concise, but in general accurate, treatise of Aldrich: but while I acknowledge my obligations to my predecessors, of whose labours I have largely availed myself; I do not profess to be altogether satisfied with any of the treatises that have yet appeared; nor have I accordingly judged it any unreasonable presumption to point out what seem to me the errors they contain. Indeed, whatever deference an Author may profess for the authority of those who have preceded him, the very circumstance of his publishing a work on the same subject, proves that he thinks theirs Open to improvement. In censuring, however, as I have had occasion to do, several of the doctrines and explanations of logical writers, and of Aldrich in particular, I wish it to be understood that this is not from my having formed a low estimate of the merits of the Compendium drawn up by the Author just mentioned, but, on the contrary, from its deserved popularity, - from the impossibility of noticing particularly all the points in which we agree, - and from the consideration that errors are the more carefiilly to be pointed out in proportion to the authority by which they are sanctioned.
In the later editions I have introduced, in the Appendix under the word Person, an extract from the theological works of my illustrious predecessor in the teaching of Logic, Dr. Wallis, Professor of Geometry in this University.
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