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To avoid needless logomachies, the best course would probably be to consider these names as neither general nor individual, and to place them in a class apart.

Useful value and exchangeable value remain, then, in inevitable attachment, although it is their nature continually to tend towards mutual exclusion. I shall not fatigue the reader with a refutation of the logomachies which might be offered in explanation of this subject: of the contradiction inherent in the idea of value there is no assignable cause, no possible explanation.

The word which thus serves the purpose of a sign of predication is called, as we formerly observed, the copula. It is important that there should be no indistinctness in our conception of the nature and office of the copula; for confused notions respecting it are among the causes which have spread mysticism over the field of logic, and perverted its speculations into logomachies.

The word which thus serves the purpose of a sign of predication is called, as we formerly observed, the copula. It is important that there should be no indistinctness in our conception of the nature and office of the copula; for confused notions respecting it are among the causes which have spread mysticism over the field of logic, and perverted its speculations into logomachies.

If they no longer worshipped stocks and stones, or eked out their needs with pilgrimages and images, they still held fiercely to audible images, to printed words and formulae. But why revive the echoes of the ancient logomachies? Suffice it that we lost our tempers very readily in pursuit of God and Truth, and said exquisitely foolish things on either side.

Logomachies, conflicts about words, into such death-traps of effort those ardent spirits run and perish. This is now almost a commonplace; it has been said before by numberless people.

They turn greedily to the eloquent pages of L'Evolution créatrice, but however earnestly they search they cannot find there any definite solution of the difficulties of the age-old problem. They wander wearily through the mazes of psychological detail or wage almost childish logomachies over the interpretation of each other's essays.

He had exploded the scholastic system, which had become a mere mass of logomachies and an incubus upon scientific progress. He had again been the first to 'draw a distinct line between the material and the intellectual world' ; and Reid apparently assumes that he had drawn it correctly. One characteristic of the Cartesian school is obvious.

After triumphing for a season, it has been of late years often treated with contempt, and sometimes banished to the limbo of extinct logomachies.

I will try to indicate very briefly the kind of improvement of which we need not despair. First of all, I conceive that, as I have indicated, a really scientific habit of thought would dispel many hopeless logomachies.