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Logic 1

Logic's Door-Plate Vocation

The aim of knowledge is to know.

MINUTE LOGIC

By C.S. Pierce

Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise

§1. Logic's Promises.

Begin, if you will, by calling logic the theory of
the conditions which determine reasoning's to be secure.
A conception at once more exact and more extended
may be looked for in the sequel; but this definition description will
serve for our preparatory studies of the yet unvisited
country into which we propose to push our explorations.

Logic, then , is a Theory. The end of any theory is to
furnish a natural account of its object. I hope and trust
that I shall succeed in animating my reader with a theoretic
interest in logic; but that is an attitude of mind belonging
chiefly to a sort of intellectual development which comes
late in life. the healthy boy asks, 'Oh, what's the use' of
this or that study? The young man is apt to fancy that he

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Minute Logic
By C.S. Pierce
Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise
1. Logic's Promises.

Begin if you will, by calling logic the theory of the conditions which determine reasoning's to be secure.

A conception of once more exact and more extended may be looked for in the sequel; but this description will serve for our preparatory studies of the yet unvisited country into which we propose to push our explorations.

Logic, then , is a Theory. The end of any theory is to furnish a natural account of its object??. Tho he?? and trust that I shall succeed in animating my reader with a theoretic interest in logic; but that is an attitude of mind belonging chiefly to a sort of intellectual development which comes late in life. the healthy boy asks, 'Oh. what's the use' of this or that study? The young man is ??? fancy that he