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Serving New Thought is pleased to present
William Atkinson's
Art Of Logical Thinking
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1 - Reasoning -
2 - Process of Reasoning -
3 - The Concept -
4 - The Use of Concepts -
5 - Concepts and Images -
6 - Terms -
7 - Meaning of Terms -
8 - Judgments -
9 - Propositions -
10 - Immediate Reasoning -
11 - Inductive Reasoning -
12 - Reasoning by Induction -
13 - Theory and Hypotheses -
14 - Making and Testing Hypotheses -
15 - Deductive Reasoning -
16 - The Syllogism -
17 - Varieties of Syllogisms -
18 - Reasoning by Analogy -
19 - Fallacies -
inference: "Men must constantly employ imperfect induction in order to advance but
great dangers attend inductive inferences
made from too narrow experience. A child
has experience with one or two dogs at his
home. Because of their gentleness, he argues
that all dogs are gentle. He does not, perhaps, find out the contrary until he has been
severely bitten. His induction was too hasty.
He had not tested a sufficiently large number
of dogs to form such a conclusion. From one
or two experiences with a large crop in a certain latitude, a farmer may argue that the
crop will generally be profitable, whereas it
may not again prove so for years. A man
may have trusted a number of people and
found them honest. He concludes that people
as a rule are honest, trusts a certain dishonest man, and is ruined. The older people
grow, the more cautious they generally become in forming inductive conclusions. Many
instances are noted and compared but even
the wisest sometimes make mistakes. It once
was a generally accepted fact that all swans
were white. Nobody had ever seen a dark
swan, and the inference that all swans were
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