3 Aug 1814

Logic

Ch.1. Logic defined

'. 1. Amplitude justified

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According to this /your/ account of it (it may here naturally enough be objected) an institute of the art of Logic and a compleat Encyclopaedia - at any rate if the Encyclopaedia be a methodical one - are one and the same thing. This work of yours, if it be what it professes to be is therefore an Encyclopaedia and that a compleat as well as a methodical one.

Answer. /I answer/ /My answer is/ {that} To be /If it be/ compleat to entitle itself to the appellation of a compleat one, true it is that this as any other /any institute/ of logic, and therefore this, can not have been left altogether unvisited, any part /portion/ whatever of the field of art and science - no nor of the whole field of human thought and action. But of every part /the [...?]/ of that field an Encyclopaedia may, with perfect propriety, give a compleat survey; whereas that which in relation to that same field comes within the purview consists of no more than a general outline, together with /including/ its principal divisions, together with here and there a hint, such as may happen to be suggested by a comparative and birds eye view and thence in some sort a commanding view for the more advantageous culture of it.

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