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1908 Nov. 29
Logic
I.i. 4

soul, you or I, can interpret the ways of that creative Mind, and
to that extent is made in the image of its maker, I am led
to pronounce the theory of reasoning to be one of the diviner of the
sciences. There is food for deep reflexions as we are approach-
ing the portico of this temple called Logic.

§2. I do not mean to define logic as the theory of reasoning.
For in the first place, a definition must not involve any ambiguity,
[a ??] the word 'theory' in the phrase 'theory of reasoning' is very
seriously equivocal. In my opinion almost all the schools of
German logic and more than one of the American schools, how-
ever interesting their studies may be, are quite mistaken in sup-
posing that those studies have any essential bearing upon what
all the world calls logic, or upon any subject nearly so fundamental;