Excerpt from The Logic of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh: Reduced and Prepared for Use in Colleges and Schools But the\ Lectures, as an exposition of Logical sci ence, were by no means free from defect. Sir Wil liam Hamilton himself has indicated some of the improvements he had discovered as desirable in the science, as a system, in his Discussions and the Frag mentary Notes published by his Editors. To supply this want, the present Editor has inserted in para graphs indicated by brackets, what he has deemed desir able ia these improvements, and yet compatible with the integrity of form in which the system still appears. The more important of these additions are, The Enu meration of the Wholes with which Logic should be conversant; The Division of Judgments; The Division of Reasonings into Mediate and Immediate; and The Nature of Inductive Reasoning. The department of Methodology is left by Sir William Hamilton in a form that appears to the present Editor very unsatisfactory. But as this topic may with as much philosophical propriety be treated in a system of Rhetoric, he has on re ection abandoned his first intention to modify the form in which it appears in the Lectures, which is, after all, mainly but a translation from German treatises, and' presenting the tepic here as it was left by Sir William Hamilton, viii preface. 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."