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Logick

Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)

The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences. - Summary from Subtitle

NOTE: As with all historical texts, the language used in this volume should be interpreted within the context of the entire work and the cultural context of its publication.

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Education, Early Modern

Language: English

Keyword(s): logic (22), words (5), ideas (5), syllogisms (4), judgement (4), perception (3), reasoning (3), propositions (2)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface InTheDesert
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Play 01 Of the Nature of Ideas InTheDesert
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Play 02 Of the Objects of Perception InTheDesert
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Play 03 Of the Several Sorts of Perceptions or Ideas InTheDesert
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Play 04 Of Words, and Their Several Divisions, Together with the Advantage and Danger of Them InTheDesert
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Play 05 General Directions Relating to Our Ideas InTheDesert
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Play 06 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 1 InTheDesert
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Play 07 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 2 InTheDesert
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Play 08 Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 3 InTheDesert
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Play 09 Of the Nature of a Proposition, and Its Several Parts InTheDesert
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Play 10 Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 1 InTheDesert
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Play 11 Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 2 InTheDesert
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Play 12 The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 1 InTheDesert
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Play 13 The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 2 InTheDesert
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Play 14 General Directions to Assist Us in Judging Aright InTheDesert
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Play 15 Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 1 InTheDesert
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Play 16 Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 2 InTheDesert
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Play 17 Of the Nature of a Syllogism, and the Parts of Which It is Composed InTheDesert
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Play 18 Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 1 InTheDesert
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Play 19 Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 2 InTheDesert
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Play 20 The Doctrine of Sophisms InTheDesert
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Play 21 Some General Rules to Direct Our Reasoning InTheDesert
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Play 22 The Nature and Kinds of Method, viz. Natural and Arbitrary, Synthetic and Analytic InTheDesert
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Play 23 General and Special Rules of Method InTheDesert
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