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Elementary Course of Christian Philosophy: Based on the Principles of the Best Scholastic Authors is unavailable, but you can change that!

This textbook of Catholic philosophy is almost throughout an exposition of the Thomistic doctrine. Whatever material in the book is not directly derived from St. Thomas is drawn from the rich treasury of Scholastic writers. It begins with a section on Rational philosophy, and covers logic, ideology, and criteriology. The next section is on Real philosophy; it covers general and special...

on the veracity of a witness to prove a fact, I should rely on the truth of the fact to prove the veracity of the witness.” (g) The fallacy of many questions, or of interrogation, occurs when several questions requiring different answers are asked, and the answer given to one is assumed as applicable to the others; as, “Are virtue and vice good or evil?” Whether we answer yes or no, we fall into error. We may also classify among fallacies all reasonings in which any one of the rules of the syllogism
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