16 Oct. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Disputation

'.1. General Factors

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So much for profession: now for the result.

For about two thousand years little more or less, the precepts of this art have been before us: and the result is that of the whole converse[?] of things knowable there is not a single one concerning which the smallest particle of knowledge has been found obtainable by the means of it.

On the contrary, the nature of it is now, or may now be seen to be such, that by means of it of no one thing can any sort or degree of knowledge be at any time by any possibility be obtained.

Experience - Observation - Experiment - Reflection on[?] the results of each and of all together: these are the means these are the instruments by which knowledge, such as is within the power of man, is picked up, is[?] collected, put together and treasured up, and of no one of these in the whole mass of the Aristotelian logic is so much as a syllable to be found.

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