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title: 'The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1870-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Logic and Rhetoric'
- 'Epistemology'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 1'
- 'John 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1870-the-laws-of-discursive-thought-being-a-text-book-of-formal-logic
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# The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-Book of Formal Logic

James McCosh's treatise on formal logic analyzes notions, judgment, and reasoning, defending Aristotelian analytic methods and critiquing Kantian/Hamiltonian innovations.

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