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{Left margin, top left of page: "Logic 1" Then: "#107 Gen[...] Int to Logic. Vol [..] Chp 1[.] Put in part for[.]. Raised typewritten copy." Then: "Logic's Door-Plate Vocation."}

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 reasonings 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.

{Left margin, next to the first sentences of the paragraph below: "The aim of knowledge is to know."}

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

{Left margin, top left of page: "Logic 1" Then: "#107 Gen[...] Int to Logic. Vol [..] Chp 1[.] Put in part for[.]. Raised typewritten copy." Then: "Logic's Door-Plate Vocation."}

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 reasonings 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.

{Margin, left of following paragraph: "The aim of knowledge is to know."}

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