...elements, or among a part of them, ie, a relation implied by or inferentially involved in the premises. " The requirements of a general method in logic seem...number of either of them, or to the nature of their connection. To this object neither the processes of logic nor those of algebra in their actual state...

...wish to retain. Those elementa which do not present themselves in the conclusion are, in the langnage of the common logic, called middle terms; and the...conclusion connecting the two remaining terms. But the pioblem of elimination, as contemplated in this work, possesses a much wider scope. It proposes, not...

...in the premises. ‘The requirements of a general method in logic seem to be the following:—lst. As the conclusion must express a relation among the...number of either of them, or to the nature of their connection. To this object neither the processes of logic nor those of algebra in their actual state...