Logick: or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth. With a Variety of Rules to guard against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences.
London: T. Longman, and T. Shewell; and J. Brackstone, 1745. The Eighth Edition, Corrected. Octavo, iv, 365, [4], [1] pages, bound in period full leather with raised bands to spine. Isaac Watts’s Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth is an important 18th-century work on logic, philosophy, reasoning, rhetoric, education, and the disciplined pursuit of truth. Written by the noted English Nonconformist minister, theologian, hymn writer, and philosopher Isaac Watts, the book served as a widely used manual for students and educated readers seeking instruction in rational thought, argumentation, judgment, method, definition, evidence, debate, and the detection of fallacies. Blending Enlightenment philosophy with Protestant intellectual culture, Watts’s Logick is a significant early textbook of reason and moral inquiry, appealing to collectors of philosophy, rhetoric, theology, education, 18th-century textbooks, and early modern intellectual history. Ex-library with some of the typical markings. The hinges have been repaired and possibly reattached, rubbing and wear, some discoloration and foxing, else in good + condition. Item #342
Price: $160.00