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Aug 10, 2016 · Whatley’s conception of logic depended on two principles. The first was that logic was (or should be) a science, based on clear theoretical principles. The lack of theory explained logic’s lack of progress and left it open to criticism. The second was that logic was about language, not thought.
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Mar 7, 2011 · Elements of logic by Whately, Richard, 1787-1863. Publication date 1856 Topics Logic Publisher New York, Harper & brothers Collection library_of_congress; americana
Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
Elements of logic, Also available in digital form. Contributor: Whately, Richard Date: 1848
Apr 15, 2024 · Richard Whately (born Feb. 1, 1787, London, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1863, Dublin, Ire.) was an Anglican archbishop of Dublin, educator, logician, and social reformer. The son of a clergyman, Whately was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and took holy orders.
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Richard Whately (Archbishop of Dublin, 1831-63) contributed the popularization of common-sense views on the mind and. edge. Drawing principally on the works of Dugald Stewart and on own understanding of phrenology, Whately brought philosophical sues to a literate public and aided in the education of British and. youth.
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Whately's achievement was not so much in logic as in moral metalogic; he explained what logicians should have been doing. When he wrote, nearly 250 years after Francis Bacon , no British philosopher had made a convincing reply to the charges leveled against logic from the time of the Renaissance.