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1908 Nov 29
Logic
I.i. 6

meanings to be each exclusively attached to a single term
of logic, and of showing you the kind of considerations
which will govern me in these selections of meanings. I need
hardly remark, however, that I should not indulge in this
excursus if it were not going carry you along that pathway
of which I have just now spoken.

Under the word scientia, the Latin Lexicon (and let it
be understood, once for all, that whatever I may say of the
history of non-logical words will usually have been borrowed from dic-
tionaries, histories of sciences, and the like; for it is only within
the field of logic that I have made much thorough research of my
own into such matters) the Lexicon, I say, furnishes no examples of this
word earlier than Cicero, who sometimes uses it in ways which remind