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Reflections Upon Learning, Wherein Is Shewn the Insufficiency Thereof, in Its Several Particulars
Reflections Upon Learning Wherein Is Shewn the Insufficiency Thereof in Its Several Particulars Author:Thomas Baker Subtitle: In Order to Evince the Usefulness and Necessity of Revelation General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1714 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Knapton and R. Wilkin Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the G... more »eneral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. V. Of Logic. , OGIC, in the Modern Phrafe, is the Art of Thinking, and being defign'd for a Help or Inftrument of Reafon, its very Nature implies Weaknefs in the Underftanding, and therefore we ought not to value our felves too much upon our Ability , in giving fubtle Rules, and finding out Logical Arguments, iince it would be more Perfection not to want them. GOD Almighty, who fees all things intuitively, does not want thefe Helps j He neither (lands in need of Logic, nor ufes it j but we, whofe Underftand- ings are fhort, are forc'd to collect one thing from another, and in that Pro- cefs we feek our proper Mediums, and call in all other Helps, that may be fubfervient to Reafon. There was little confiderable done in this Matter before Ariftotle, (for the Eleatic Logic was only an Art of Wrangling, as the Academic was of Doubting) He was the great Advancer of this Art, infomuch that, ever fince his time, the main Grounds of Rea- foning have been borrow'd from him, even by thofe that have defpis'd him. But as nothing can be begun and perfected together j fo his Logic has been charg'd with feveral Defe« less