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Logic Sect. 4

Ch. │ │ Aristotle Præcognita

'.2 Uses Utilitates

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 31 July 1814 - Make Arist.'s Præcognita a separate Chapter. It will come best when the whole of J B's Præcognita have been displayed.

 Say Ch.1. Præcognita for descriptive delineations concerning Logic, according to the present work.

Ch.2. Præcognita concerning Logic, according to the Aristotelians.

'.I. Uses of Logic - Utilitates, + according to the Aristotelians.

1. As to the uses of Logic - viz. of their Logic - none though this topic is brought to view by them, have the Aristotelians been able to find: practice, they say, will bring them to view these uses. But if practice will, as they find it convenient to suppose, bring them to the view of the learner, why not to that of teachers: and if so it be that to his view it has brought them, why not particularize them here at once, as he has done in the case of all the other topics.

Indistinct indeed must have been the notions attached by these logicians to the word utilitas. Else instead of referring under the name of practice to the casual observation of each Scholar, how could they have avoided referring to the indication which they themselves had but that instant been giving. Necessary is this art, say they, to the acquisition of every discipline: i.e. of everything that is or can be the subject of instruction, by which if they mean any thing, every thing that is or can be the subject of any thing that ever did go or ever can go by any such name as either that of art or that of science. So many disciplines, so many uses - for each discipline a distinct intelligible and undeniable use: subsequently to which in relation to each such disciplines might have come the enquiry into the particular mode in which it administers to well-being. How much more instructive and satisfactory would this indication have been - how much more commensurate with the truth - how much more honourable to the art would have been such an indication of the uses, than the vague and self humiliating put off - Go look for them - What they are we can not tell you: if you have good luck some time or other you may find them or some of them of yourselves.

+  Use (most general) corresponds most to End. Uses particular may come at the end of the Præcognita.

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