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MEANING AND DIVISION OF LOGIC

What is logic and why should we study logic? We might begin our answer to this question by observing that everyone naturally desires to know. This self-evident statement simply means that a human being i*. ii constituted that he cannot help wanting to know. human being is knowing being.

!ut what kind of knowing? We know in various ways. "or e#ample$ I I imw I hat a dinner is cooking by smelling it. I know that a man is in a I hin by looking at him. I know what %ew &ork looks like by remember- iii '''( visit there a year ago. In a more comple# way than in any of the

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............ Ilia+ every man dies and why every man must die.

Ii il I iiid of knowing do we mean$ then$ when we say that everyone

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1' / I In we mean by reasoned knowing? It is that kind of knowing lit in h i linil mil why this or that is so. Thus$ if someone asks me n i i . i i m.iii mu1$I die why every man is mortal2I have to give him inn* * i mi Im ii i / ''1 iii). Ihe slalenieiil as I rue. In brief$ I have to prove

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