The Principles of Logic

Francis Herbert Bradley is the most widely read British idealist.William Moss is currently completing a PhD in the history of mathematics in Cape Town.

Preface to 1883 edition. Book I Judgment: the general nature of judgment; the categorical and hypothetical forms of judgment; the negative judgment; the disjunctive judgment; principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle and double negation; the quantity of judgments; the modality of judgments. Book II part I The general nature of inference: some characteristics of reasoning; some erroneous views; a general idea of inference; principles of reasoning; negative reasoning; two conditions of inference. Book II, part II inference continued: the theory of association of ideas; the argument from particulars to particulars; the inductive methods of proof; Jevons' equational logic. Book III, part I Inference continued: the enquiry reopened; fresh specimens of inference; general characteristics of inference; the main types of inference; another feature of inference; the final essence of reasoning; the beginnings of inference. Book III, part II Inference continued: formal and material reasoning; the cause and the because; the validity of inference; the validity of inference continued.