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Elementary Course of Christian Philosophy: Based on the Principles of the Best Scholastic Authors

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Brief of His Holiness, Pope Pius IX., v Approbation of the Bishop of Montpellier, vii Translator's Preface, ix Preface, xi Works to Consult, xvi INTRODUCTORY. Definition of Philosophy. — Its Excellence, Utility, and Division, xxix RATIONAL PHILOSOPHY. Its Division, 1 LOGIC. Definition of Logic. — Its Utility. — Its Division, 1 PART FIRST. — DIALECTICS. Reasoning and Its Constituent Elements, 3 CHAPTER I. — SIMPLE APPREHENSION. Article I. — Nature of Simple Apprehension, 3 " II. — Ideas and Oral Terms, 4 " III. — Division of Terms, 5 " IV. — Universals, 8 " V. — Predicaments or Categories, 10 " VI. — Properties of Terms in a Proposition, 12 " VII. — Means to Insure Propriety of Terms. — Definition, 15 " VIII. — Division, 16 CHAPTER II — JUDGMENT. Article I. — Nature of Judgment, 18 " II. — The Proposition and Its Elements, 19 " III. — Division of Propositions, 21 " IV. — Properties of Propositions, 25 CHAPTER III. — REASONING. Article I. — Definition and Elements of Reasoning, 80 " II. — Division of Reasoning, 31 " III. — Categorical Syllogisms and Their Rules, 32 " IV. — Modes and Figures of the Syllogism, 35 " V. — Hypothetical Syllogisms and Their Rules, 38 " V

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