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H. Holt and Company
Language
English
Pages
546

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Subjects
Thought and thinking, Logic, Pensée, Science, Logique, Logik

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Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
August 1951, Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
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1938, H. Holt and Company
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Table of Contents

pt. I. Introduction. The problem of logical subject-matter
The existential matrix of inquiry : biological
The existential matrix of inquiry : cultural
Common sense and scientific inquiry
The needed reform of logic
pt. II. The structure of inquiry and the construction of judgments. The pattern of inquiry
The construction of judgment
Immediate knowledge : understanding and inference
Judgments of practice : evaluation
Affirmation and negation : judgment as requalification
The function of propositions of quantity in judgment
Judgment as spatial-temporal determination : narration-description
The continuum of judgment : general propositions
Generic and universal propositions
pt. III. Propositions and terms. General theory of propositions
Propositions ordered in sets and series
Formal functions and canons
Terms or meanings
pt. IV. The logic of scientific method. Logic and natural science : form and matter
Mathematical discourse
Scientific method : induction and deduction
Scientific laws : causation and sequences
Scientific method and scientific subject-matter
Social inquiry
The logic of inquiry and philosophies of knowledge.

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"This book is a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented ... in Studies in logical theory; that were somewhat expanded in Essays in experimental logic and were briefly summarized with special reference to education in How we think."--Pref.

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Dewey Decimal Class
160
Library of Congress
BC50 .D43

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viii, 546 p.
Number of pages
546

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OL13525660M
Internet Archive
logictheoryofinq00dewe
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38027918
OCLC/WorldCat
229987

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