If A Philosophic Theory Is Once Ruled

It Is Not Impossible To Think That The Minds Of Philosophers Sometimes Act Like Those Of Other Mortals, And That, Having Once Been Determined By Diverse Circumstances To Adopt Certain Views, They Then Look For And Naturally Find Reasons To Justify These Views.

Small Groups Or Communities May Be Far More Oppressive To The Individual Than Larger Ones. Men Are In Many Ways Freer In Large Cities Than In Small Villages.

A Creative Element Is Surely Present In All Great Systems, And It Does Not Seem Possible That All Sympathy Or Fundamental Attitudes Of Will Can Be Entirely Eliminated From Any Human Philosophy.

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.

All Logic Texts Are Divided Into Two Parts. In The First Part, On Deductible Logic, The Fallacies Are Explained; In The Second Part, On Inductive Logic, They Are Committed.