An Essay Towards an Easy and Useful System of Logic

x, 170 pp. Blakey taught logic and metaphysics at Queen's College from 1848-1851. CONTENTS: Part I. Preliminary Observations; On the Objects of a Rational System of Logic, and to What Departments of Knowledge it Can Be with Propriety Applied; On the Nature of Mathematical Evidence, and its Influence When Applied to Other Branches of Knowledge, with a Few Remakrs on the Evidence of Natural Philosophy; On the Mind; On Morals; On Political Philosophy; On Religion--Natural and Revealed; General Remarks on the Contents of the Preceding Chapters. Part II. On Analysis, and Synthesis or Induction; On Analogy; On Probable Evidence; On Testimony; On Language; General Remarks on the Five Preceding Chapters. Part III. On Syllogisms; On Technical Phrases in the Art of Logic; Miscellaneous Hints for the Government and Improvement of the Understanding.