Abstract

Science

This article presents information on several books, related to science. The books are "Logic, or the Morphology of Knowledge," by Bernard Bosanquet, "Science of Logic," by P. Coffey, and "Formal Logic. By F.C.S. Sculler. The simultaneous appearance of three substantial works on formal logic gives somewhat piquant evidence of the fact that specialists in the science of correct reasoning do not all reason alike. For the three books together offer the advanced student the opportunity of comparing, or of choosing among a neo-Hegelian, a neo-Thomistic, and a pragmatistic form of that ancient discipline. Coffey's "The Science of Logic," is dedicated to Cardinal Mercier, one of the principal patrons of the neo-scholastic movement. "Formal Logic," is dedicated to the memory of the last great liberator of the human spirit, William James; and it is paradoxically designed to provide both a textbook in the science and a proof that no such science exists or should be taught.