Implication and Linear Inference

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. MY object in the present work is to develop and elucidate the non-syllogistic principle on which my Logic was founded. In order to make the central idea clear, I have permitted myself Some detailed criticism of other writers, While I have abstained from complicated systematic construction. Still following Mr. Bradley, and influenced further by Mr. Joseph, especially in the distinction between Syllogism and Deduction, I have laid even more stress than before on the principle of coherence, and have insisted on implication as a term free from reference to reasoning in its traditional shapes. I have thus been able, as I hope, to do much more justice to Mr. Bradley's positive account of inference than was done in my former work.