Logick: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Logick, credited to Isaac Watts, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Logick by Isaac Watts. Read in English by InTheDesert. The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences. - Summary from Subtitle NOTE: As with all historical texts, the language used in this volume should be interpreted within the context of the entire work and the cultural context of its publication.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Logick
• Author credits: Isaac Watts
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 9:35:50

Catalogue topics

• logic
• syllogisms
• words
• judgement
• propositions
• ideas
• perception
• reasoning

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 12:31
2. 01 - Of the Nature of Ideas — 3:47
3. 02 - Of the Objects of Perception — 26:18
4. 03 - Of the Several Sorts of Perceptions or Ideas — 29:04
5. 04 - Of Words, and Their Several Divisions, Together with the Advantage and Danger of Them — 42:30
6. 05 - General Directions Relating to Our Ideas — 12:07
7. 06 - Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 1 — 32:12
8. 07 - Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 2 — 38:26
9. 08 - Special Rules to Direct Our Conception of Things Part 3 — 26:55
10. 09 - Of the Nature of a Proposition, and Its Several Parts — 7:40
11. 10 - Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 1 — 29:22
12. 11 - Of the Various Kinds of Propositions Part 2 — 30:28
13. 12 - The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 1 — 19:11
14. 13 - The Springs of False Judgment, or the Doctrine of Prejudices Part 2 — 53:48
15. 14 - General Directions to Assist Us in Judging Aright — 31:53
16. 15 - Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 1 — 24:01
17. 16 - Special Rules to Direct Us in Judging of Particular Objects Part 2 — 23:28
18. 17 - Of the Nature of a Syllogism, and the Parts of Which It is Composed — 5:54
19. 18 - Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 1 — 27:13
20. 19 - Of the Various Kinds of Syllogisms, with Particular Rules Relating to Them Part 2 — 17:46
21. 20 - The Doctrine of Sophisms — 19:56
22. 21 - Some General Rules to Direct Our Reasoning — 20:18
23. 22 - The Nature and Kinds of Method, viz. Natural and Arbitrary, Synthetic and Analytic — 14:23
24. 23 - General and Special Rules of Method — 26:39

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