"The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation. Its searching penetration by definition alone, before which even mathematical precision fails, would especially commend it to those whom the abstruseness of the study does not terrify, and who recognise the valuable results which must attend discipline of mind. Like a medicine, though not a panacea for every ill, it has the health of the mind for its aim, but requires the determination of a powerful will to imbibe its nauseating yet wholesome influence: it is no wonder therefore that puny intellects, like weak stomachs, abhor and reject it."
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Introduction to Aristotle's Organon, as translated by Octavius Freire Owen (1853), p. v
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Porphyry (philosopher)
Porphyry of Tyre (Πορφύριος, c. 234 – c. 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher.
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