| CHAPTER 1.—THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF LOGIC. | |
| 1. | The Mind. |
| 2. | Logic Related to Other Subjects. |
| 3. | Logic Defined. |
| 4. | The Value of Logic to the Student. |
| 5. | Outline. |
| 6. | Summary. |
| 7. | Review Questions. |
| 8. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation |
| CHAPTER 2.—THOUGHT AND ITS OPERATION. | |
| 1. | The Knowing Mind Compared with the Thinking Mind. |
| 2. | Knowing by Intuition. |
| 3. | The Thinking Process. |
| 4. | Notions, Individual and General. |
| 5. | Knowledge and Idea as Related to the Notion. |
| 6. | The Logic of the Psychological Terms Involved in the Notion. |
| 7. | Thought in the Sensation and Percept. |
| 8. | Evolution and the Thinking Mind. |
| 9. | The Concept as a Thought Product. |
| 10. | The Judgment as a Thought Product. |
| 11. | Inference as a Thought Product. |
| 12. | Thinking and Apprehension. |
| 13. | Stages in Thinking. |
| 14. | Outline. |
| 15. | Summary. |
| 16. | Review Questions. |
| 17. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 3.—THE PRIMARY LAWS OF THOUGHT. | |
| 1. | Two Fundamental Laws. |
| 2. | The Law of Identity. |
| 3. | The Law of Contradiction. |
| 4. | The Law of Excluded Middle. |
| 5. | The Law of Sufficient Reason. |
| 6. | Unity of Primary Laws of Thought. |
| 7. | Outline. |
| 8. | Summary. |
| 9. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 10. | Review Questions. |
| 11. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 4.—LOGICAL TERMS. | |
| 1. | Logical Thought and Language Inseparable. |
| 2. | Meaning of Term. |
| 3. | Categorematic and Syncategorematic Words. |
| 4. | Singular Terms. |
| 5. | General Terms. |
| 6. | Collective and Distributive Terms. |
| 7. | Concrete and Abstract Terms. |
| 8. | Connotative and Non-connotative Terms. |
| 9. | Positive and Negative Terms. |
| 10. | Contradictory and Opposite Terms. |
| 11. | Privative and Nego-positive Terms. |
| 12. | Absolute and Relative Terms. |
| 13. | Outline. |
| 14. | Summary. |
| 15. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 16. | Review Questions. |
| 17. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 5.—THE EXTENSION AND INTENSION OF TERMS. | |
| 1. | Two-fold Function of Connotative Terms. |
| 2. | Extension and Intension Defined. |
| 3. | Extended Comparison of Extension and Intension. |
| 4. | A List of Connotative Terms Used in Extension and Intension. |
| 5. | Other Forms of Expression for Extension and Intension. |
| 6. | Law of Variation in Extension and Intension. |
| 6a. | Important Facts in Law of Variation. |
| 6b. | Law of Variation Diagrammatically Illustrated. |
| 7. | Outline. |
| 8. | Summary. |
| 9. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 10. | Review Questions. |
| 11. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 6.—DEFINITION. | |
| 1. | Importance. |
| 2. | The Predicables. |
| 3. | The Nature of a Definition. |
| 4. | Definition and Division Compared. |
| 5. | The Kinds of Definitions. |
| 6. | When the Three Kinds of Definitions are Serviceable. |
| 7. | The Rules of Logical Definition. |
| 8. | Terms Which Cannot be Defined Logically. |
| 9. | Definitions of Common Educational Terms. |
| 10. | Outline. |
| 11. | Summary. |
| 12. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 13. | Review Questions. |
| 14. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 7.—LOGICAL DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION. | |
| 1. | Nature of Logical Division. |
| 2. | Logical Division Distinguished from Enumeration. |
| 3. | Logical Division as Partition. |
| 4. | Four Rules of Logical Division. |
| 5. | Dichotomy. |
| 6. | Classification Compared with Division. |
| 7. | Kinds of Classification. |
| 8. | Two Rules of Classification. |
| 9. | Use of Division and Classification. |
| 10. | Outline. |
| 11. | Summary. |
| 12. | Review Questions. |
| 13. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 8.—LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. | |
| 1. | The Nature of Logical Propositions. |
| 2. | Kinds of Logical Propositions. |
| 3. | The Four Elements of a Categorical Proposition. |
| 4. | Logical and Grammatical Subject and Predicate Distinguished. |
| 5. | The Four Kinds of Categorical Propositions. |
| 6. | Propositions which do not Conform to Logical Type. |
| 7. | Propositions not Necessarily Illogical. |
| 8. | The Relation between Subject and Predicate. |
| 9. | Outline. |
| 10. | Summary. |
| 11. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 12. | Review Questions. |
| 13. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 9.—IMMEDIATE INFERENCE—OPPOSITION. | |
| 1. | The Nature of Inference. |
| 2. | Immediate and Mediate Inference. |
| 3. | The Forms of Immediate Inference. |
| (1) Opposition. | |
| CHAPTER 10.—IMMEDIATE INFERENCE (Continued). | |
| (2) Immediate Inference by Obversion. | |
| (3) Immediate Inference by Conversion. | |
| (4) Immediate Inference by Contraversion. | |
| 4. | Epitome of the Four Processes of Immediate Inference. |
| ◆ Inference by Inversion. | |
| 5. | Outline. |
| 6. | Summary. |
| 7. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 8. | Review Questions. |
| 9. | Problems for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 11.—MEDIATE INFERENCE—THE SYLLOGISM. | |
| 1. | Inference and Reasoning. |
| 2. | The Syllogism. |
| 3. | The Rules of the Syllogism. |
| 4. | Rules of Syllogism Explained. |
| 5. | Aristotle’s Dictum. |
| 6. | Canons of the Syllogism. |
| 7. | Mathematical Axioms. |
| 8. | Outline. |
| 9. | Summary. |
| 10. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 11. | Review Questions. |
| 12. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 12.—FIGURES AND MOODS OF THE SYLLOGISM. | |
| 1. | The Four Figures of the Syllogism. |
| 2. | The Moods of the Syllogism. |
| 3. | Testing the Validity of the Moods. |
| 4. | Special Canons of the Four Figures. |
| 5. | Special Canons Related. |
| 6. | Mnemonic Lines. |
| 7. | Relative Value of the Four Figures. |
| 8. | Outline. |
| 9. | Summary. |
| 10. | Illustrative Exercises. |
| 11. | Review Questions. |
| 12. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 13.—INCOMPLETE SYLLOGISMS AND IRREGULAR ARGUMENTS. | |
| 1. | Enthymeme. |
| 2. | Epicheirema. |
| 3. | Polysyllogisms. Prosyllogism—Episyllogism. |
| 4. | Sorites. |
| 5. | Irregular Arguments. |
| 6. | Outline. |
| 7. | Summary. |
| 8. | Review Questions. |
| 9. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 14.—CATEGORICAL ARGUMENTS TESTED ACCORDING TO FORM. | |
| 1. | Arguments of Form and Matter. |
| 2. | Order of Procedure in a Formal Testing of Arguments. |
| 3. | Illustrative Exercise in Testing Arguments which are Complete and whose Premises are Logical. |
| 4. | Illustrative Exercise in Testing Completed Arguments, one or both of whose Premises are Illogical. |
| 5. | Incomplete and Irregular Arguments. |
| 6. | Common Mistakes of the Student. |
| 7. | Outline. |
| 8. | Summary. |
| 9. | Review Questions. |
| 10. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 15.—HYPOTHETICAL AND DISJUNCTIVE ARGUMENTS INCLUDING THE DILEMMA. | |
| 1. | Three Kinds of Arguments. |
| 2. | Hypothetical Arguments. |
| 3. | Antecedent and Consequent. |
| 4. | Two Kinds of Hypothetical Arguments. |
| 5. | Rule and Two Fallacies of Hypothetical Argument. |
| 6. | Hypothetical Arguments Reduced to Categorical Form. |
| 7. | Illustrative Exercises Testing Hypothetical Arguments of All Kinds. |
| 8. | Disjunctive Arguments. |
| 9. | Two Kinds of Disjunctive Arguments. |
| 10. | First Disjunctive Rule. |
| 11. | Second Disjunctive Rule. |
| 12. | Reduction of Disjunctive Argument. |
| 13. | The Dilemma. |
| 14. | Four Forms of Dilemmatic Arguments. |
| 15. | The Rule of Dilemma. |
| 16. | Illustrative Exercises Testing Disjunctive and Dilemmatic Argument. |
| 17. | Ordinary Experiences Related to Disjunctive Proposition and Hypothetical Argument. |
| 18. | Outline. |
| 19. | Summary. |
| 20. | Review Questions. |
| 21. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 16.—THE LOGICAL FALLACIES OF DEDUCTIVE REASONING. | |
| 1. | A Negative Aspect. |
| 2. | Paralogism and Sophism. |
| 3. | A Division of the Deductive Fallacies. |
| 4. | General Divisions Explained. |
| 5. | Fallacies of Immediate Inference. |
| 6. | Fallacies in Language (Equivocation). |
| 7. | Fallacies in Thought (Assumption). |
| 8. | Outline. |
| 9. | Summary. |
| 10. | Illustrative Exercises in Testing Arguments in Both Form and Meaning. |
| 11. | Review Questions. |
| 12. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 17.—INDUCTIVE REASONING. | |
| 1. | Inductive and Deductive Reasoning Distinguished. |
| 2. | The “Inductive Hazard.” |
| 3. | Complexity of the Problem of Induction. |
| 4. | Various Conceptions of Induction. |
| 5. | Induction and Deduction Contiguous Processes |
| 6. | Induction an Assumption. |
| 7. | Universal Causation. |
| 8. | Uniformity of Nature. |
| 9. | Inductive Assumptions Justified. |
| 10. | Three Forms of Inductive Research. |
| 11. | Induction by Simple Enumeration. |
| 12. | Induction by Analogy. |
| 13. | Induction by Analysis. |
| 14. | Perfect Induction. |
| 15. | Traduction. |
| 16. | Outline. |
| 17. | Summary. |
| 18. | Review Questions. |
| 19. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 18.—MILL’S FIVE SPECIAL METHODS OF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT. | |
| 1. | Aim of Five Methods. |
| 2. | Method of Agreement. |
| 3. | Method of Difference. |
| 4. | The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference. |
| 5. | The Method of Concomitant Variations. |
| 6. | The Method of Residues. |
| 7. | General Purpose and Unity of Five Methods. |
| 8. | Outline. |
| 9. | Summary. |
| 10. | Review Questions. |
| 11. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 19.—AUXILIARY ELEMENTS IN INDUCTION. OBSERVATION—EXPERIMENT—HYPOTHESIS. | |
| 1. | Foundation of Inductive Generalizations. |
| 2. | Observation. |
| 3. | Experiment. |
| 4. | Rules for Logical Observation and Experiment. |
| 5. | Common Errors of Observation and Experiment. |
| 6. | The Hypothesis. |
| 7. | Induction and Hypothesis Distinguished. |
| 8. | Hypothesis and Theory Distinguished. |
| 9. | The Requirements of a Permissible Hypothesis. |
| 10. | Uses of Hypothesis. |
| 11. | Characteristics Needed by Scientific Investigators |
| 12. | Outline. |
| 13. | Summary. |
| 14. | Review Questions. |
| 15. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 20.—LOGIC IN THE CLASS ROOM. | |
| 1. | Thought is King. |
| 2. | Special Functions of Induction and Deduction. |
| 3. | Two Types of Minds. |
| 4. | Conservatism in School. |
| 5. | The Method of the Discoverer. |
| 6. | Real Inductive Method not in Vogue in Class Room Work |
| 7. | As a Method of Instruction, Deduction Superior. |
| 8. | Conquest, not Knowledge, the Desideratum. |
| 9. | Motivation as Related to Spirit of Discovery. |
| 10. | Discoverer’s Method Adapted to Class Room Work. |
| 11. | Question and Answer Method not Necessarily One of Discovery. |
| 12. | Outline. |
| 13. | Summary. |
| 14. | Review Questions. |
| 15. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| CHAPTER 21.—LOGIC AND LIFE. | |
| 1. | Logic Given a Place in a Secondary Course. |
| 2. | Man’s Supremacy Due to Power of Thought. |
| 3. | Importance of Progressive Thinking. |
| 4. | Necessity of Right Thinking. |
| 5. | Indifferent and Careless Thought. |
| 6. | The Rationalization of the World of Chance. |
| 7. | The Rationalization of Business and Political Sophistries. |
| 8. | The Rationalization of the Spirit of Progress. |
| 9. | A Rationalization of the Attitude Toward Work. |
| 10. | The Logic of Success. |
| 11. | Outline. |
| 12. | Summary. |
| 13. | Review Questions. |
| 14. | Questions for Original Thought and Investigation. |
| GENERAL EXERCISES IN TESTING CATEGORICAL ARGUMENTS. | |
| GENERAL EXERCISES IN TESTING HYPOTHETICAL, DISJUNCTIVE AND DILEMMATIC ARGUMENTS. | |
| EXAMINATION QUESTIONS FOR TRAINING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY. | |
| OUTLINE OF BRIEFER COURSE. | |
| INDEX. | |