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THEORY OF LOGIC:

AN ESSAY.

BY

CARVETH READ.

LONDON:

C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

1878.

PREFACE.

THREE or four years ago a Travelling Scholarship was granted me by the Hibbert Trustees. One condition of holding it was that I should write something on some subject connected with my studies; and I was glad to have an opportunity of writing the following Essay.

Now that it is on the eve of publication I cannot help reflecting that almost every page is liable to two criticisms, (1) that it abounds with truisms, (2) that it strains after a spurious sort of originality. There is no sort of opposites which it is easier to unite than faults but for the first of these I plead, that I have been dealing with the most general facts, and that it

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would be strange if these were not sometimes also the most obvious; and as to the second,

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