Watts IsaacABAA
Watts IsaacABAA
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
1789réf. 218085Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson at the Stone House in Second Street 1789. First American edition stated sixteenth edition on title page. x 13-348 pp lacks blank preceding Introduction. 1 vols. 12mo. Modern full crushed brown levant. Bookplate. Title page somewhat soiled and reapirs at inner margin some minor dampstaining to text leaf G2 pp. 79-80 defective with loss of lower corner and several words of text; overall a good sound copy of a very scarce book. First American edition stated sixteenth edition on title page. x 13-348 pp lacks blank preceding Introduction. 1 vols. 12mo. The Straw Man Fallacy. First published in England in 1725 this is the first printing in America of Watts' first important work; it ultimately became extremely influential in universities and America well through the first half of the 19th century. As an interesting sidenote Watts in describing the particular sophism known as the 'straw man" was the first the use the word 'straw" in describing it. At p. 303 he writes: ".and when they have with a great deal of pomp attacked and confoundedthese images of straw of their own making they triumph over their adversary as if they had confounded his position." A very scarce and important book. Evans 22246 Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, in Second Street unknown books
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