Philosophy of Knowledge; An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...called " man." Here certainly we have reasoning of a higher kind; both because it is based on a much enlarged system of cognitive judgments, and also because it is more conscious of the nature, number, and value of its middle terms. The same aspect of the reasoning process is laid bare by a further analysis of the other example which was chosen for illustration. Experts in mechanical engineering, when summoned to form a judgment affirming or denying the safety of a building, bring with them, in their memories or in their pockets, a number of general judgments already formed, which may serve as major premises. The conclusion at which they plan to arrive admits of statement either in categorical or hypothetical form; and either as a statement of present matter of fact or as a prediction. Thus they may conclude, " This building is (or is not) safe;" or " If this building is not strengthened, it will fall" (or the opposite judgment, " Even if it is not strengthened, it will not fall"). The major premises for the argument leading to the conclusion are numerous; they concern the strength of materials of various kinds; the laws of strains, loads, and resistances, and the practical principles for distributing them properly; the effects of weather, weights, and different chemical changes upon the strength of materials;--in a word, the mechanics, physics, and chemistry of the day, so far as bearing on the problem. These premises are themselves conclusions reached by a vast amount of reasoning which has been more or less successfully accomplished during scores of generations of men. But the original points of starting from which it was concluded to these premises, to this collective " science " of safe and proper building, were certain cognitive...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...called " man." Here certainly we have reasoning of a higher kind; both because it is based on a much enlarged system of cognitive judgments, and also because it is more conscious of the nature, number, and value of its middle terms. The same aspect of the reasoning process is laid bare by a further analysis of the other example which was chosen for illustration. Experts in mechanical engineering, when summoned to form a judgment affirming or denying the safety of a building, bring with them, in their memories or in their pockets, a number of general judgments already formed, which may serve as major premises. The conclusion at which they plan to arrive admits of statement either in categorical or hypothetical form; and either as a statement of present matter of fact or as a prediction. Thus they may conclude, " This building is (or is not) safe;" or " If this building is not strengthened, it will fall" (or the opposite judgment, " Even if it is not strengthened, it will not fall"). The major premises for the argument leading to the conclusion are numerous; they concern the strength of materials of various kinds; the laws of strains, loads, and resistances, and the practical principles for distributing them properly; the effects of weather, weights, and different chemical changes upon the strength of materials;--in a word, the mechanics, physics, and chemistry of the day, so far as bearing on the problem. These premises are themselves conclusions reached by a vast amount of reasoning which has been more or less successfully accomplished during scores of generations of men. But the original points of starting from which it was concluded to these premises, to this collective " science " of safe and proper building, were certain cognitive...
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