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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and company Subjects: Logic Philosophy / General Philosophy / Logic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK I. NAMES, NOTIONS, AND PROPOSITIONS. CHAPTER I. NAMES OE TEEMS. 1. There may be knowledge without Language; but all the truths considered in Logic, are Truths expressed in Words. The knowledge that guides the lower animals is unconnected with language. They observe by their senses the things about them; and the observations are remembered in sensible forms. The bush that gives shelter, the herbage for food, the animals to be preyed upon, are known and sought after, by the sole guidance of sense impressions. Human beings have numerous experiences of the same kind, involving the order of nature, without being connected with words. The child has a large stock of sense knowledge before it can understand and employ language. The skill of the artizan consists, for the largest part, in associations between sensible appearances and movements; to the stone-polisher, the sight of the surface at once suggests the next blow. ' Even in a highly intellectual profession, as the Practice of Physic, the consummation of skill requires a large sense knowledge, passing beyond the scope of language. The physician learns from books, everything that can be expressed in words; but there are delicate shades of diagnosis that no language can convey, stored up, without verbal expression, in the eye, the ear, and the touch. Such knowledge, however sufficient for the individual, can be, only to a very limited degree, and with difficulty, comKNOWLEDGE WITHOUT LANGUAGE. 43 municated to others. A sense impression, st...

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