The Principles of Logic

This 1922 second edition of F. H. Bradley's major work, first published in 1883, includes an additional commentary and essays.

F. H. Bradley (Author)

9781108040273, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 December 2011

422 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg

F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) was the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist school, which came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and remained influential into the first half of the twentieth. Bradley, who was influenced by Hegel and also reacted against utilitarianism, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the greatest intellectuals of his generation, and was the first philosopher to receive the Order of Merit, in 1924. In this major work, originally published in 1883, Bradley discusses the basic principles of logic: judgment and inference. He rejects the idea of a separation between mind and body, arguing that human thought cannot be separated from its worldly context. In the second edition, published in 1922 and reissued here, Bradley added a commentary and essays, but left the text largely unaltered. Volume 1 contains Book 1 on judgment and Book 2 on inference.

Preface
Preface to first edition
Book I. Judgment: 1. The general nature of judgment
2. The categorical and hypothetical forms of judgment
3. The negative judgment
4. The disjunctive judgment
5. Principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and double negation
6. The quantity of judgments
7. The modality of judgments
Book II. Part I. The General Nature of Inference: 1. Some characteristics of reasoning
2. Some erroneous views
3. A general idea of inference
4. Principles of reasoning
5. Negative reasoning
6. Two conditions of inference
Book II. Part II. Inference Continued: 1. The theory of association of ideas
2. The argument from particulars to particulars
3. The inductive method of proof
4. Jevons' equational logic.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL]