...knowledge does not depend upon sophistication regarding scientific method. Locke's famous jibe, that "God has not been so sparing to men, to make them...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational" (Essay, bk. IV, chap, xvii, sec. 4) applies to inductive inference as well as to deductive. It must...

...'reconstructed logic' an artificial logic. He perhaps best evokes the distinction by quoting John Locke: 'God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...creatures and left it to Aristotle to make them rational'. 4 Arrow's General Impossibility Theorem points to the problem of ordering preferences rationally, especially...

...That Aristotle's logic had serious limitations was long realized. The philosopher John Locke said, "God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...twolegged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational."'3 A common observation was that people who had never heard of Aristotle conducted their...

...the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke stresses the universality of reason. God, he says, "has not been so sparing to Men to make them barely...could get so to examine the Grounds of Syllogisms. .. . God has been more bountiful to Mankind than so. He has given them a Mind that can reason without...

...much as it brought the old resources into consciousness. Surely we must agree with John Locke who said "God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational" (quoted by Goody & Watt, 1963/1968, p. 65). But it is completely reasonable to expect that literacy,...

...a resource for reasoning about any subject whatsoever, Locke's well-known protest seems apposite:" "God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely...creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational" (Eisay Conctruing Human Understanding, iv.xvii.4). People surely were able to reason perfectly well...

...could know anything by Reason; and that since the invention of Syllogisms, there is not one of Ten Thousand that doth. But God has not been so sparing...two-legged Creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them Rational.90 It was not Aristotle but his scholastic followers that Locke found objectionable. Aristotle...

...faculty that does not require a formal method (viz. Aristotle's syllogistic logic) to be effective. 'God has not been so sparing to Men to make them barely...Creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them Rational'. In this section, Locke illustrates his method of inference by deriving freedom and selfdetermination...

...of reasoners, or that people have to be taught rational thought by a specialist - as though God had been "so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged...Creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational" (E: 4. 17.4). 25 In fact he thinks the " Pears, Instance of the Fingerpost, Ch. 12, p. 96. " Coste,...

...reasoning, they offered nothing useful. He ridicules their recitation of Aristotelian rules of argument: 'But God has not been so sparing to Men to make them...Creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them Rational' (iv.xvii-4). His most explicit advice occurs in the Conduct (begun in 1697), which at one point he...