23 July 1814

Logic

Ch.1. Logic what

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3 Aug 1814. Postpone this to Chr [?] of Unstudious pursuits /occupations/ and Disciplines

In speaking of logic as an art in the language /according to the definition/ of the Aristotelians, I find /feel/ myself obliged to add to the word art the word science. For the truth is that howsoever clearly distinguishable in idea, the two objects - art and science - in themselves are not in any instance found separate. In no place is any thing to be done, but in the same place there is something to be known {and understood}; in no place is anything to be known, but in the same place there is something to be done.

For /To the/ presenting in conjunction with each other, as well as either of them without the other, the idea which the word art is employed to signify, and the idea which the word science is employed to sigify, the latin word discipline, is, as has then been seen, correctly and admirably well adapted. Unfortunately, though so perfectly coincident in respect of its original, and so near to perfect coincidence in sound and appearance, yet, in respect of its established and already /at present/ customary import the correspondent English word discipline presents no equal aptitude. (a

Great however would be the convenience - strong the light thrown upon the whole field of art and science /human power/, if instead of the compressed and tedious /composite and frequently perplexing/ locution art and science, or art and sciences, [?] men /the men of modern times/ could prevail upon themselves to employ the simple as well as classical term discipline.

(a) From signifying instruction itself or the subject of it, in English as well as in French, and probably because so it was seen to be in French, it came to signify along with, and frequently instead of it, the means employed in the administration of instruction, viz. in so far as they consist of coercion and punishment: in the first instance, on the occasion of education at large: and thence in the military department of government.

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