About this title: Opening the door for beginners who seek a thorough grounding in the first arts of human understanding, this book explains the nature of logic, grammar, and rhetoric - the three of the seven liberal arts - and how they relate to one another. In Renaissance universities, the trivium (literally, the crossing of three part way) formed the essence of ...
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Binding: paperback
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780967967509ISBN:0967967503
Description: Fine in Not Issued jacket. Originally published: South Bend, Ind. : McClave Print. Co., 1948. Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Paul Dry Books, Philadelphia
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780967967509ISBN:0967967503
Description: Octavo. xii + 292 pages. Edited by Marguerite McGlinn. Notes. Index. Underlining and highlighting on 8 pages, else a very good copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc
Date Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN-13:9780967967509ISBN:0967967503
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780967967509ISBN:0967967503
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Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PAUL DRY BOOKS
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780967967509ISBN:0967967503
Description: New. Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Acadmie franaise, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced ninete... read more
"OK, this book may not be an 'easy read' and may not be everyone's cup of tea. Not a beach book.
Having noted the above, I want to add that anyone who is interested in logic, grammar, and how the two connect will find this book illuminating. Sister Miriam was a wonderful teacher, and this book is still sometimes used in college undergraduate classes to explain how Aristotelian logic works and how logic relates to rhetoric, grammar, argument.
She's remarkably clear. Her language is straightforward; she explains the terms sensibly. I studied philosophy as an undergrad and loved the discipline, but I wish I'd read this text then. It would have helped me to put into better words the things I was thinking.
As a word person, and as a teacher, I found this book satisfying. But is IS a text! It's not "logic made fun and readable for the average everyday person."
If you WANT "logic made fun and readable for the average everyday person," then check out The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life by Lou Marinoff."
"I should preface this by saying that this is a textbook, used in the author's Freshman English classes. Yet, hers was never typical of such classes. She did not just teach the students a little grammar, she taught them how to think. I can imagine her classes must have been one of those grueling, interminable ordeals that students so love to bemoan while in the midst of it, but that they boast about after the fact. She studied under Mortimer J. Adler, so it comes as no surprise that she is well versed in classics. If you love to learn, this is the place to start.
I cannot say that this was always a pleasurable read, the chapters on logic in particular seemed long and lumbering, there was just so much there that needed more careful study than I was willing to give; however, I learned so much from the early chapters on grammar that it kept me going in hopes of learning more. It was surprising to me that I could learn so much about grammar, since I have studied the topic quite a bit in my time. Sister Mariam Joseph wastes no time on the basics. In the grammar section, she introduces such topics as the ten categories of being: substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, time, space, posture, and habiliment. She has a section on ambiguity, and how it arises, including one variety I had never heard about: "Ambiguity arising from imposition and intention." Her section on Mode or Mood also took my by surprise, explaining the four modes: indicative, potential, interrogative and volitive. The only problem with this book is that it packs so much information into such a small package, that you miss the oportunity that a classroom would provide of working through exercises to consolidate what you've learned. This is a book that may need to be read many times.
My favorite part, however, was the rhetoric section. She has packed volumes worth of information on writing into forty short pages. It left me longing for more. I will be purchasing another of her works, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language, very soon. I feel that it will expand on what is offered in this volume. I can't wait to read it."
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