| Summary: | "Most of the treatises of Logick in common use have been formed on the model of the ancient systems, and are encumbered with many scholastic subtlities and unimportant distinctions. The instructions, which they furnish on the subject of rationation, consist of very little more than a description of the syllogism, and a few general principles of demonstrative reasoning. They contain no elements nor rules to assist us in reasoning on subjects of probability, or on the ordinary events of human life. The manner, in which these books are written, is ill adapted to the comprehension of young minds. In explaining the operations of reasoning, many technical terms and arbitrary forms are employed, of which the tendency is rather to embarrass and perplex, than to instruct the learner. Under these impressions, the writer of this compend has pursued the following plan. After passing through the customary distinctions of terms and propositions, he has given a brief account of moral evidence, and pointed out the circumstances which distinguish it from demonstrative. A concise view is then given of the different forms of reasoning, with the principles on which they respectively proceed"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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