MS 628-640 (1909) - Meaning

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Chapter I and Preface

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Meaning 5 satisfactioriness of a [method?], or of any other proceeding that has an a recognized aim

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Ms. 629 STUDIES IN THE MEANINGS OF OUR THOUGHTS What is the Aim of Thinking? Considered in Two Chapters. Chapter I. The Fixation of Belief. I. [.e..] people care to study logic: each deems himself fully competent already to distinguish a good argument from a bad one. (I notice, however, that it is generally agreed that anything like infallibility in that respect is an extremely rate gift, almost limited to one happy possessor, as to the identity of whom...)

We come to the full possession of the power of drawing inferences the best of all our faculties; and though the pure eyes {carat: "of reason"} of many children have a penetration that they are apt to lose during their teens, yet it this is the one sense

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that, with assiduous practice, will retain its [????ness] into old age, and edge beyond the military years, and be even be keener at seventy than it was at sixty. The history of its exploits would make a grand subject for a book. The medieval schoolmen, following the Romans, taught boys logic next after grammar. First, Grammar, second, Logic, third, Rhetoric; made up the "trivium" [literally, junction of three] of studies with which school studies began, as being the easiest and most indispensible. They were followed by the four recognized mathematical sciences, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy; the "quadrivium". The whole were the seven liberal arts, so called as which constituting the proper learning properfit for the a freeman, and the slave owner? an owner of white slaves.

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