The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses: a Preliminary Chapter toward an Examination of Hume's Argument against Miracles in its Logic and in its History

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Resource ID

1117

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Open

Contributed by

Frederik Wellmann

type of material

A. MS.

manuscript number

692

publication

n.p.

description

Opposition to the dualism of reason and instinct. Dogs can reason on occasions, with an example from CSP's experience. Rudimentary sense of logic (logica utens) and the sophisticated sense of logic (logica docens). Attack on modern books on logic. Precepts and hypotheses. The three stages in the life of a hypothesis, each stage governed by entirely different logical principles. Abduction, deduction, and induction.

topic

LOGIC / PRACTICAL LOGIC, NOTES, FRAGMENTS

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general index

Abduction, Deduction, Hume David, Hypothesis (see also Abduction; Induction), Induction, Instinct, Logic (modal see Modality), Logica docens, Logica utens, Miracles, Precepts