Excerpt from The Art of Logical Thinking: Or the Laws of Reasoning Reasoning is defined as The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of rea son; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; rea soning power; disputation, discussion, argu mentation. Stewart says: The word rea son itself is far from being precise in its mean ing. In common and popular discourse it de notes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. 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.