Excerpt from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation Writers on logic have generally preferred the former acceptation of the term; the latter. And more extensive signification, is that in which I mean to use it. I do this by virtue of the right I claim (hr every author. To give whatever provisional definition he pleases of his own subject. At sufiicient reasons will, I believe, unfold themselves as we advance, why this should be not only the provisional but the final definition. It involves, at all events, no arbitrary change in the mean ing of the word; for, with the general usage of the English language, the wilder signification, I believe, accords better than the more re stnc one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.