A Brief Text-Book of Logic and Mental Philosophy
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Charles Coppens’ aim in A Brief Textbook of Logic and Mental Philosophy is to present to students and readers, especially those unfamiliar with the Latin language, a brief yet clear outline of the systems of logic, metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and natural theology taught in the Catholic colleges, seminaries, and universities.
Top Highlights
“A judgment may be defined as an act of the mind affirming or denying the agreement of two objective ideas” (Volume 1, Page 18)
“But if the agreement or disagreement is discovered consequently on experience, e.g., ‘gold is malleable,’ the judgment receives the opposite appellations of synthetic, a posteriori, experimental, contingent, conditional, and physical.” (Volume 1, Page 19)
“matter or truth attained, criticising the reliability of mental action” (Volume 1, Page 9)
“the predicate is taken in its full comprehension, but not (except in definitions) in its full extension” (Volume 1, Page 20)
“the rules to be observed in reasoning or discussing, is called Formal Logic or Dialectics” (Volume 1, Page 9)