[VI]. Aristotle’s logic, [375]—Subordination of judgments to concepts, [376]—Science as a process of definition and classification, [377]—Aristotle’s theory of propositions, [378]—His conceptual analysis of the syllogism, [379]—Influence of Aristotle’s metaphysics on his logic, [380]—Disjunction the primordial form of all reasoning, [381]—How it gives rise to hypothetical and categorical reasoning, [382].
[VII]. Theory of applied reasoning: distinction between demonstration and dialectic, [383]—Aristotle places abstractions above reasoned truth, [384]—Neglect of axioms in comparison with definitions, 384—‘Laws of nature’ not recognised by Aristotle, [385]—He failed to perceive the value of deductive reasoning, [387]—Derivation of generals from particulars: Aristotle and Mill, [387]—In what sense Aristotle was an empiricist, [390]—Examination of Zeller’s view, [391]—Induction as the analysis of the middle term into the extremes, [393]—Theory of experimental reasoning contained in the Topics, [394].
[VIII]. Systematic treatment of the antithesis between Reason and Passion, [395]—Relation between the Rhetoric and the Ethics, [395]—Artificial treatment of the virtues, [396]—Fallacious opposition of Wisdom to Temperance, [397]—Central idea of the Politics: the distinction between the intellectual state and the material state, [398]—Consistency of the Poetics with Aristotle’s system as a whole, [399].
IX. Aristotle’s philosophy a valuable corrective to the modern glorification of material industry, [399]—Leisure a necessary condition of intellectual progress, [400]—How Aristotle would view the results of modern civilisation, [401].
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Transcriber’s Note
These have been marked up as footnotes in the text, using alphabetic coding. This identifies the page and line number rather than any precise text.
A. Page 9, line 18. Plutarch (ut fertur), Plac. Phil., I., iii., 4.
B. Page 15, line 26. Xenophanes, Fragm. 19 and 21, ed. Mullach.