| 1816 - 746 pages
...inutiHtyof logic^betraysiby this inference, a great want of that art ;' for he might as well infer, becaufe a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the. way of Paris, that therefore anu *tbtr road is tifelefs. -""' •"'"' V«h. X1H. PART II. There is perhaps no art... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...justly and acutely in his own profession, without rules. But if any man think, that from this concession he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a...of that art by this inference : for it is no better reasoning than (his, that because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
| 1823 - 856 pages
...of logic, betrays by this inference a great want of that art ; for he might as well infer, because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, that therefore any other road is useless. There is perhaps no art which may not be acquired, in а... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...and acutely in his own profession, without rules. But if any man think, that, from this concession, he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a...of that art by this inference ; for it is no better reasoning than this, That because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
| Thomas Kelt - 1849 - 424 pages
...and acutely in his own profession, without rules. • But if any man think, that from this concession he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a...of that art by this inference : for it is no better reasoning than this, that because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...justly and acutely in his own profession without rules. But if any man think, that from this concession he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a...of that art by this inference ; for it is no better reasoning than this — that because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
| 1855 - 420 pages
...justly and acutely in his own profession, without rules. But if any man think, that from this concession he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a...of that art by this inference : for it is no better reasoning than this, that because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1863 - 552 pages
...profession, without rules. But if any man think, that, from thin concession, he may infer the inutiltty of logic, he betrays a great want of that art by this inference ; for it is no better reasoning than this, That because a man may go from Edinburgh to London by the way of Paris, therefore... | |
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