Arthur Fairbanks

Arthur Fairbanks

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Portrait of Arthur Fairbanks Arthur Fairbanks The Philosophical Review (1892)

Another defect of this method is that the author often fails to indicate with sufficient clearness the results of his discussion. For example, the section entitled "What is a judgment?" would hardly enable the beginner to obtain a clear conception of the author's view.
In the present state of logical science the writer of a text-book has no easy task before him, but for once the savor of the middle ages remains only in a few forms. Logic is defined as "the study (Lehre) of correct thinking."
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Portrait of Arthur Fairbanks Arthur Fairbanks The Philosophical Review (1892)

It is perhaps a defect, that the book hardly succeeds in vindicating a clear and distinct sphere for logic. The main purpose of the writer is to make students think, and, if I mistake not, his clear-cut definitions and wide variety of example will prove a stimulus for more advanced thinkers than those for whom it was intended.
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