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Logic 101

such a preface as this chapter is more than one which follows a more familiar way.

As an additional assistance to the reader who is willing to lend me his company further I will here give an outline of what I shall have to say.
It cannot of course be made fully intelligible if it could there were no need of developing it into a whole volume.
But the table of contents of a work of serious discussion is always worth some examination at the outset and I shall endeavor rto give this sketch the dame kind of utility in a somewhat higher degree than a mere table of contents can subserve it.

That a reader should deliberately seek instruction from a treatise on logic is a proof that he has already made certain observations and reflections and has acquired certain conceptions.
I propose at the outset to invite the reader to give one more reconsideration