Excerpt from Reason, Thought and Language or the Many and the One: A Revised System of Logical Doctrine, in Relation to the Forms of Idiomatic Discourse
Specialists in what is sometimes spoken of disparagingly as Formal Logic have of late been almost as scarce as canonists or line-engravers. I therefore deem myself very fortunate to have been allowed to submit the first draft of this book to the expert criticisms of my friend, Mr. St. George Stock, M.A., of Oxford, who went through it in manuscript with his usual acute vigilance. If any errors, other than those of judgement, be detected in it, they have probably crept in during the rewriting of the work.
These pages represent an effort to strengthen and revivify Formal Logic - though I do not admit that Logic can be anything but formal - by bringing it into closer connexion with the living facts of thought and speech. I have been bold enough also to think that both ancient and recent views upon various parts of logical theory require examination, and that the entire subject can be with advantage rehandled. The shield which I have especially desired to touch by way of challenge is that of the 'new logicians' who hold that there can be reasons without Reason, as well as that of the traditional Logic which makes the implicit explicit without the help of a middle term. Except in the light of what is universal thought cannot exist.
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