"The science of Logic is said to have been originated by Aristotle. ...actual reasoning is little dependent upon a knowledge of this science. Some of the greatest feats of reasoning which history records occurred before Aristotle was born, before logic was recognized as a science. Logic enables us to compel assent to propositions, rather than to discover truth. In other words, it too often constitutes merely a training in the art of disputation."
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Raymond St. James Perrin, The Religion of Philosophy or The Unification of Knowledge (1885)
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