The Principles of Logic

by Bradley, F. H.

• ISBN13: 9781108040273
• ISBN10: 1108040276
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-08
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist school, which came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and remained influential into the first half of the twentieth. Bradley, who was influenced by Hegel and also reacted against utilitarianism, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the greatest intellectuals of his generation, and was the first philosopher to receive the Order of Merit, in 1924. In this major work, originally published in 1883, Bradley discusses the basic principles of logic: judgment and inference. He rejects the idea of a separation between mind and body, arguing that human thought cannot be separated from its worldly context. In the second edition, published in 1922 and reissued here, Bradley added a commentary and essays, but left the text largely unaltered. Volume 1 contains Book 1 on judgment and Book 2 on inference.

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface to first edition

Judgment

The general nature of judgment

The categorical and hypothetical forms of judgment

The negative judgment

The disjunctive judgment

Principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and double negation

The quantity of judgments

The modality of judgments

The General Nature of Inference

Some characteristics of reasoning

Some erroneous views

A general idea of inference

Principles of reasoning

Negative reasoning

Two conditions of inference

Inference Continued

The theory of association of ideas

The argument from particulars to particulars

The inductive method of proof

Jevons' equational logic

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