Logic : deductive and inductive / John Grier Hibben.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hibben, John Grier, 1861-1933

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

logic.

Medical Subjects:

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

Summary:

"This book consists of two parts--the Deductive and the Inductive Logic. The former treats of the general nature of our thought processes as well as the fundamental principles and practice of deduction, and is now published for the first time. The latter is my Inductive Logic which was published in 1896, now revised and incorporated in this volume. It has been my endeavor to present in connection with the more formal and traditional treatment of the deductive logic also some considerations which have been contributed by the discussions of the modern logic and which find expression in such works as those of Sigwart, Lotze, Erdmann, Green, Bosanquet, Venn, and others. The illustrations and examples contained in the text are taken as far as possible from the sphere of everyday experiences, in order that they may represent modes of actual reasoning pursued by the common run of mankind. With this end in view, all the stock examples which have grown old and infirm in the service of many generations of students in logic have been omitted. Moreover, the material as well as the formal significance of the judgments employed in reasoning has been emphasized in order that the student may come to regard logic as a living process of thought functioning in a normal and natural manner, and not as an artificial manipulation of certain dead elements mechanically adjusted one to another"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The nature of thought

The concept

The judgment

The universal judgment

Definition

Division and classification

The singular judgment

The negative judgment

The categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive judgments

The nature of inference

The laws of thought

Inference by opposition

On transformations of judgment forms

A generalization of immediate inferences

Mediate inference/The syllogism

Mood and figure

The hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms

Extra-syllogistic reasoning

Fallacies

Induction and deduction

The essentials of induction

Types of inductive inference

Causation

The method of causal analysis and determination

Mill's inductive methods/The method of agreement

The method of difference

The joint method of agreement and difference

The method of concomitant variations

The method of residues

Prediction and verification

Hypothesis

Analogy

Probability

Empirical laws

Inductive fallacies

The inductive methods as applied to the various sciences

Historical sketch of induction.

Notes:

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (APA PsychNet, viewed July 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Hibben, John Grier, 1861-1933. Logic.

OCLC:

778885149

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