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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
43 to enunciate in the confusing and confounding "scholarly" terminology of text-books, No wonder that even college students find their brains in a muddle over it.
It is also to be noted that modern logic does not guarantee the accuracy of the conclusion though natural logic does. I shall again quote from Mr. Banerjee's excellent little text book where he cites Dr. Ray.
"In deductive or syllogistic reasoning we draw conclusions from given propositions as data. Given the premisses, we ivfer the conclusion that follows necessarily from them. We are not in any way concerned to prove our premisses; but our conclusion must be true, if the premisses be true. Hence it is evident that the truth we arrive at by deduction or syllogistic reasoning is entirely of a hypothetical character, depending for its trustworthiness entirely on the trustworthiness of the data."
To illustrate the contrast between artificial and natural logic in this respect, it is perfectly correct according to the former to say :
(1) All men are fools; (2) Socrates is a man;
(3) . Secrates is a fool : But it is simply impossible for natural logic to commit such a blunder, since it only proceeds where there is a fixed rule, and since there is no such fixed rule that declares all men to be fools.
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