formal logic

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Judgement, as Kant describes it, does not involve the forms of judgement borrowed from Formal Logic as its essential differentiations; and these forms of judgement do not involve the categories.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

To realise this is to understand more clearly the limitations of Formal Logic.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The account of the schematism, therefore, is an attempt to get out of the false position reached by appealing to Formal Logic for the list of categories.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

Without an authoritative Logical Dictionary to refer to, where all contradictories, synonyms, and contraries may be found on record, Formal Logic will hardly sanction the free play of common sense.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

Formal Logic has always to choose between the meaning of the words and the meaning of the man.

From Pragmatism by Murray, D. L.