PRINCIPLES OF LOGIC BY G.H. Joyce
Preface
I bought Principles
of Logic in a London bookshop in 1983 for �1, and turned out to be one of
my most valuable acquisitions. It is interesting for a number of reasons.
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It is an example in the purest form of a seminary
manual of the traditional type, written in the modern age, yet
uncontaminated� by any modernistic
prejudice.
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It is a well-written and clearly presented summary
of traditional logic, from the neo-scholastic point of view.
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It is researched in a scholarly way and has many
references to the Latin sources for medieval logic.� Many of these (particularly Aristotle and Aquinas) are now available on
the Web.
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It is a comprehensive guide to the state of Logic
before the modern theory became widespread.�
Joyce supplies many references to nineteenth century sources on Logic,
in English, French and German.� Thought
he never mentions (and doubtless never heard of Frege), he discusses many
authorities (such as Uberweg, Jevons and Sigwart, whom we know or believe Frege
had read).
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It is essentially a historical document.� It was published in 1908, some thirty years
after the publication of Frege's
revolutionary Begriffschift, six years after Russell discovered the famous contradiction in Frege's system,
and the very same year as Zermelo published a formalised version of Cantor's set theory in
Peirce-Schroder notation.��� But Joyce's
summary of modern logic does not
mention these things at all.� It shows
how our view of the past, which reflects our history of the past, may not have
been shared by those who were actually living in the past [N1].
The book was first published in 1908, by
Longmans.� I have used material from the
third edition, published as late as 1949 (being the first four chapters, and
part of the seventh chapter).
I know little about its author, George Hayward
Joyce, except for his dates (1864-1943) and that his name appears on the Nihil Obstat of another neo-scholastic
work, as censor deputatus of the
diocese of Southwark.� If anyone who has
further information about Joyce, would like to contact
me, I would be grateful.
Title Page and Author's Introduction
3. The Place of Logic in Philosophy
3. Adequate, Clear and Obscure Concepts
5. Categorematic and Syncategorematic Words
7. Singular,
General and Collective Terms
8. Abstract
and Concrete Terms
9. Connotative
and Non-Connotative Terms
10. Positive
and Negative Terms
11. Absolute
and Relative Terms
12. Terms of First and Second Intention
13. Univocal,
Equivocal and Analogous Terms
15. The
'Suppositio' of the Term
5. The Fourfold Scheme of Propositions
6. Analytic and Synthetic Propositions
8. Compound Categorical Propositions
10. Reduction of Propositions to Logical
Form
5. Other Views as to the Source of the Laws of Thought
1. Import of Propositions - Predicative view
Footnotes
[N1]� As
Austin acutely observed (in the introduction to his translation of the
Grundgesetze), we tend to forget that Frege's inherited philosophical
vocabulary is a dated one.� It is the
same vocabulary that which was rendered into English by his contemporaries, the
"British Idealists" (such as "idea" for Vorstellung and
"proposition" for Satz). �Frege's thought cannot be reproduced
accurately, nor can his ideas be translated consistently, unless we understand
the philosophical language of his time.
Copyright � E.D.Buckner 2005.