Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands.

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Author:	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.
Title:	Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands.
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Print source:	Logic, or, The art of thinking in which, besides the common, are contain'd many excellent new rules, very profitable for directing of reason and acquiring of judgment in things as well relating to the instruction of for the excellency of the matter printed many times in French and Latin, and now for publick good translated into English by several hands. Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694., Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695. London: Printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge ..., 1685.
Alternate titles:	Logique. English. 1685
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AN ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AUTHOR.

THE TRANSLATORS TO THE READER.

THE FIRST DISCOURSE; Shewing the DESIGN Of this New Logic.

THE SECOND DISCOURSE Containing an Answer to the Principal Ob∣jections made against this Logic.

LOGIC; OR THE ART OF THINKING.

FIRST PART. Containing Reflections upon Ideas or upon the first Operation of the Mind which is call'd Apprehension.

CHAP. I. Of Ideas, according to their Nature and Ori∣ginal.

CHAP. II. Of the Objects of Ideas.

CHAP. III. Of Aristotle's Ten Predicaments.

CHAP. IV. Of the Composition and Simplicity of Ideas, wherein is discours'd the manner of knowing by Abstraction or Precision.

CHAP. V. Of the Ʋniversality, Particularity and Singu∣larity of Ideas.

CHAP. VI. Of the five Ʋniversal Ideas; Genus, Species, Difference, Proper, and Accident.

Of Genus.

Of Species.

Of Difference.

Of Propers.

Of Accidents.

CHAP. VII. Of the Complex'd Terms, their Ʋniversality, and Particularity.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Clearness and Distinction of Ideas, as also of their Obscurity and Confusion.

CHAP. IX. Some Examples of confus'd and obscure Ideas drawn from Ethics.

CHAP. X. Of another Cause of Confusion in our Thoughts and Discourse; Ideas annex'd to Words.

CHAP. XI. Of the Remedy of Confusion in our Thoughts and Ratiocinations, arising from the Confusi∣on of Words: Of the Benefit of defining Words; and of the difference between the de∣finition of Things and Names.

CHAP. XII. Certain Observations of great Importance, touch∣ing the Definition of Words.

CHAP. XIII. Of another sort of Definition of Names by which their Significations are denoted according to Common Ʋse.

LOGIC; OR THE ART OF THINKING. Containing Considerations of Men about Pro∣per Judgments.

Chap. I. What a Proposition is? Of the four sorts of Pro∣positions.

CHAP. II. Of the opposition of Propositions, having the same Subject and Predicate.

CHAP. III. Of Propositions simple and compos'd; That there are some which seem to be simple, but are not, and which may be call'd complex. Of Complex Propositions both as to the Subject and Attri∣bute.

CHAP. IV. Of the Nature of Incident Propositions, that make a part of Propositions Complex'd.

CHAP. V. Of the falshood that occurs in Complex Terms and Incident Propositions.

CHAP. VI. Of Complex Propositions, according to Affirma∣tion and Negation: of one sort of those kinds of Propositions which the Philosophers call Modal.

CHAP. VII. Of several sorts of Compos'd Propositions.

COPƲLATIVES.

Of Disjunctives.

Conditional.

Of Causals.

RELATIVES.

OF DISCRETIVES.

CHAP. VIII. Of Propositions Compos'd in Sence.

1. Of EXCLUSIVES.

2. OF EXCEPTIVES.

OF COMPARATIVES.

Of INCEPTIVES and DESITIVES.

A General REFLECTION.

CHAP. IX. Observations to find out the Predicates and Sub∣jects in Propositions, express'd after a less usu∣al manner.

CHAP. X. Other Observations to know, whether the Propo∣sitions are Ʋniversal or Particular?

1. OBSERVATION.

2. OBSERVATION.

CHAP. XIII. Certain Rules for the guidance of Reason, the belief of Events that depend upon Human Faith.

CHAP. VII. An Application of the preceeding Rule to the Belief of Miracles.

CHAP. XV. Other Remarks upon the same Subject, of the Beleif of Events.

CHAP. XVI. Of the Judgments we ought to make of Future Accidents.

THE TABLE.