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"This carefully edited collection of William Walker Atkinson has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
The Art of Logical Thinking
The Crucible of Modern Thought
Dynamic Thought
How to Read Human Nature
The Inner Consciousness
The Law of the New Thought
The Mastery of Being
Memory Culture
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It
The Art of Expression and The Principles of Discourse
Mental Fascination
Mind and Body; or Mental States and Physical Conditions
Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic
The New Psychology Its Message, Principles and Practice
New Thought
Nuggets of the New Thought
Practical Mental Influence
Practical Mind-Reading
Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing
The Psychology of Salesmanship
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
The Secret of Mental Magic
The Secret of Success
Self-Healing by Thought Force
The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind
Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion
Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof
Thought-Culture – Practical Mental Training
Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life
Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World
Your Mind and How to Use It
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath
Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Hatha Yoga
The Science of Psychic Healing
Raja Yoga or Mental Development
Gnani Yoga
The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India
Mystic Christianity
The Life Beyond Death
The Practical Water Cure
The Spirit of the Upanishads or the Aphorisms of the Wise
Bhagavad Gita
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Master Mind
Mental Therapeutics
The Power of Concentration
Genuine Mediumship
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
The Human Aura
The Secret Doctrines of the Rosicrucians
Personal Power
The Arcane Formulas, or Mental Alchemy
Vril, or Vital Magnetism

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The simplest form of reasoning is that known as Immediate Reasoning, by which is meant the deduction of one proposition from another which implies it. Some have defined it as: " reasoning without a middle term ." In this form of reasoning only one proposition is required for the premise , and from that premise the conclusion is deduced directly and without the necessity of comparison with any other term of proposition.

The two principal methods employed in this form of Reasoning are; (1) Opposition; (2) Conversion.

Opposition exists between propositions having the same subject and predicate, but differing in quality or quantity, or both. The Laws of Opposition are as follows:

I. (1) If the universal is true, the particular is true. (2) If the particular is false, the universal is false. (3) If the universal is false, nothing follows. (4) If the particular is true, nothing follows.

II. (1) If one of two contraries is true, the other is false. (2) If one of two contraries is false, nothing can be inferred. (3) Contraries are never both true, but both may be false.

III. (1) If one of two sub-contraries is false, the other is true. (2) If one of two sub-contraries is true, nothing can be inferred concerning the other. (3) Sub-contraries can never be both false, but both may be true.

IV. (1) If one of two contradictories is true, the other is false. (2) If one of two contradictories is false, the other is true. (3) Contradictories can never be both true or both false, but always one is true and the other is false.

In order to comprehend the above laws, the student should familiarize himself with the following arrangement, adopted by logicians as a convenience:

Universal Affirmative Negative (A) (E)
Propositions
Particular Affirmative Negative (I) (O)

Examples of the above: Universal Affirmative (A): "All men are mortal;" Universal Negative (E): "No man is mortal;" Particular Affirmative (I): "Some men are mortal;" Particular Negative (O): "Some men are not mortal."

The following examples of abstract propositions are often used by logicians as tending toward a clearer conception than examples such as given above:

(A) "All A is B."

(I) "Some A is B."

(E) "No A is B."

(O) "Some A is not B."

These four forms of propositions bear certain logical relations to each other, as follows:

A and E are styled contraries . I and O are sub-contraries ; A and I and also E and O are called subalterns ; A and O and also I and E are styled contradictories .

A close study of these relations, and the symbols expressing them, is necessary for a clear comprehension of the Laws of Opposition stated a little further back, as well as the principles of Conversion which we shall mention a little further on. The following chart, called the Square of Opposition, is also employed by logicians to illustrate the relations between the four classes of propositions:

Conversion is the process of immediate reasoning by which we infer from a given - фото 2

Conversion is the process of immediate reasoning by which we infer from a given proposition another proposition having the predicate of the original for its subject and the subject of the original for its predicate; or stated in a few words: Conversion is the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition . As Brooks states it: "Propositions or judgments are converted when the subject and predicate change places in such a manner that the resulting judgment is an inference from the given judgment." The new proposition, resulting from the operation or Conversion, is called the Converse; the original proposition is called the Convertend.

The Law of Conversion is that: "No term must be distributed in the Converse that is not distributed in the Convertend." This arises from the obvious fact that nothing should be affirmed in the derived proposition than there is in the original proposition.

There are three kinds of Conversion; viz : (1) Simple Conversion; (2) Conversion by Limitation; (3) Conversion by Contraposition.

In Simple Conversion there is no change in either quality or quantity. In Conversion by Limitation the quality is changed from universal to particular. In Conversion by Negation the quality is changed but not the quantity. Referring to the classification tables and symbols given in the preceding pages of this chapter, we may now proceed to consider the application of these methods of Conversion to each of the four kinds of propositions; as follows:

The Universal Affirmative (symbol A) proposition is converted by Limitation, or by a change of quality from universal to particular. The predicate not being "distributed" in the convertend, we must not distribute it in the converse by saying " all ." Thus in this case we must convert the proposition, "all men are mortal" (A), into "some mortals are men" (I).

The Universal Negative (symbol E) is converted by Simple Conversion, in which there is no change in either quality or quantity. For since both terms of "E" are distributed, they may both be distributed in the converse without violating the law of conversion. Thus "No man is mortal" is converted into: "No mortals are men." "E" is converted into "E."

The Particular Affirmative (symbol I) is also converted by Simple Conversion in which there is no change in either quality or quantity. For since neither term is distributed in "I," neither term may be distributed in the converse, and the latter must remain "I." For instance; the proposition: "Some men are mortal" is converted into the proposition, "Some mortals are men."

The Particular Negative (symbol O) is converted by Conversion by Negation, in which the quality is changed but not the quantity. Thus in converting the proposition: "Some men are not mortal," we must not say "some mortals are not men," for in so doing we would distribute men in the predicate, where it is not distributed in the convertend. Avoiding this, we transfer the negative particle from the copula to the predicate so that the convertend becomes "I" which is converted by Simple Conversion. Thus we transfer "Some men are not mortal" into "Some men are not-mortal" from which we easily convert (by simple Conversion) the proposition: "Some not-mortals are men."

It will be well for students, at this point, to consider the three following Fundamental Laws of Thought as laid down by the authorities, which are as follows:

The Law of Identity , which states that: "The same quality or thing is always the same quality or thing, no matter how different the conditions in which it occurs."

The Law of Contradiction , which states that: "No thing can at the same time and place both be and not be."

The Law of Excluded Middle , which states that: "Everything must either be or not be; there is no other alternative or middle course."

Of these laws, Prof. Jevons, a noted authority, says: "Students are seldom able to see at first their full meaning and importance. All arguments may be explained when these self-evident laws are granted; and it is not too much to say that the whole of logic will be plain to those who will constantly use these laws as the key."

CHAPTER XI.

INDUCTIVE REASONING

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Inductive Reasoning, as we have said, is the process of discovering general truth from particular truths, or inferring general laws from particular facts. Thus, from the experience of the individual and the race regarding the particular truth that each and every man under observation has been observed to die sooner or later, it is inferred that all men die, and hence, the induction of the general truth that "All men must die." Or, as from experience we know that the various kinds of metals expand when subjected to heat, we infer that all metals are subject to this law, and that consequently we may arrive by inductive reasoning at the conclusion that: "All metals expand when subjected to heat." It will be noticed that the conclusion arrived at in this way by Inductive Reasoning forms the fundamental premise in the process of Deductive Reasoning. As we have seen elsewhere, the two processes, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, respectively are interdependent—resting upon one another.

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