Thought and Things, or Genetic Logic . Vol. I. Functional Logic . James Mark Baldwin. London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.; New York, The Macmillan Co., 1906. Pp. xiv + 273.
Guy Allan Tawney · Science · 1907
themselves to a process which might be leading them any whither.This volume contains an excellent historical sketch of the various systems of symbolic logic and as such is a most valuable book of reference.To read it with profit, however, some knowledge of the several systems is neces- sary.It would have been a manifest advantage had the author given, for instance in his chapter on The Process of Solution, a more detailed and elementary account of the orig- inal method of Boole, or of the method of Venn, being as it is a developed form of the Boole method.Thereby the difficulties for the lay reader would have been overcome to a great extent.