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Logic 89 On the usages of languages

8th One needs but to turn over the leaves of a few of the first logical treatises that come to hand especially if the are English and nor will he have to search long in order to meet with appeals to the ordinary usages of speech as derterminative of logical doctrines.
Some recent books are quite crowded with this type of argument.
It seems usually to be employed unreflectively but there ate works in which it is deliberately laid down as the principle basis of logical science.

The greater number of those who regard this method as very efficient would seem to have in mind an extremely small group of closely similar and highly peculiar languages of modern Europe.
For some of the necessities of thought which they profess to deduce in this way are violated by the Greek the language nearest in every sense to thse I have mentioned.