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Excerpt from The Student's Handbook: Synoptical and Explanatory of Mr. J. S. Mill's System of Logic Whately or the common manuals of the science, may perhaps be not a little perplexed, on directing their attention for the first time to the study of Mill, by the total difference in the manner in which the entire subject appears to be treated. Many topics which are entirely omitted, or very slightly treated, in the most popular logics, or if mentioned, are mentioned only to be expressly excluded from the domain of the science, are elaborately discussed by Mr Mill; who, on the other hand, passes over, with scarcely any notice, many subjects which occupy a large space in the treatises of most other logical writers. Some of these differences are merely such as would occur between any two independent thinkers discussing the same subjects; some are connected with differences of opinion on certain metaphysical points, which, though themselves no part of logical science, neces sarily modify the Views which are taken of logical questions; but in general they depend upon a more fundamental cause, a due consideration of which will not only often explain the apparent or real discre pancies between different writers on logic, to which we have alluded, but will often also throw light on some of the most perplexing and hopelessly entangled questions with which Logical Science is concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.