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Excerpt from The Applications of Logic: A Text-Book for College Students This book is based on ten years of class-room experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first with courses in formal logic, and latterly with an attempt to adapt some of the more fundamental theories of logic to the practical aim of instruction in the expression and the criticism of thought. Such an attempt has seemed not out of place with any class of students, but particularly important in connection with the work of a technical school, the graduates of which are likely to find in their professional life more use for an orderly structure of ideas than for the niceties of expression. The purpose of the book is to treat the whole subject of logic in so far as it bears on the practical work of thinking and of expressing thought; it is intended as a text-book of applied logic, suitable for use as an introduction to the subject with college classes. To some extent, therefore, the exercises proposed take the form of work in composition; but at the same time many of them are intended rather to cultivate the critical faculty by a direct exercise of the judgment. These, too, have a bearing on expression, but their immediate effect is designed to be the ordering and control of ideas within the mind itself. The exercises in composition may be classed as elementary or advanced according to the knowledge and experience of the pupils who undertake them. They might follow a course in the elements of rhetoric; but also there is no reason why they should not precede it. 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.