Excerpt from An Introduction to General Logic
The only method of explaining, questioning, justifying, or disproving any Proposition is by means of other Proposi tions having some relation to it. Logic may be called the Science of the Import and Relations of Propositions; and since all Sciences are expressed in Propositions, Logic is thus the Science of Sciences - that is, the Science of a method of procedure which applies in every department of knowledge. General Logic starts from the standpoint of ordinary thought, and assumes Reason in Man and Trustworthiness in Language.
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