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title: 'Recent Improvements in Formal Logic in Great Britain'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1868-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Logic and Rhetoric'
- 'Epistemology'
- 'Metaphysics'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 1'
- 'John 1'
- 'Romans 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1868-recent-improvements-in-formal-logic-in-great-britain
---

# Recent Improvements in Formal Logic in Great Britain

Survey of 19th-century reforms in British formal logic—Whately, Hamilton, Mill—critiquing Kantian metaphysics and urging an inductive, mind-observing account of notions and reasoning.

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