Christoph von Sigwart (28 March 1830 – 4 August 1904) was a

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philosopher and

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ian. He was the son of philosopher

Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart (31 August 1789 – 16 November 1844) was a German philosopher and logician. He was the father of Christoph von Sigwart (28 March 1830 – 4 August 1904), who also was a philosopher and logician. Life Sigwar ...

(31 August 1789 – 16 November 1844).

Life

After a course of philosophy and

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, Sigwart became professor at

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(1859), and eventually at

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, in 1865.

Philosophical work

The first volume of Sigwart's principal work, ''Logik'', was published in 1873 and took an important place among contributions to logical theory in the late nineteenth century. In the preface to the first edition, Sigwart explains that he makes no attempt to appreciate the logical theories of his predecessors; he intended to construct a theory of

, complete in itself. The ''Logik'' represents the results of a long and careful study not only of German but also of English logicians. In 1895 an English translation by Helen Dendy was published in

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. Chapter 5 of the second volume is especially interesting to English thinkers as it contains a profound examination of the induction theories of

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, John Stuart Mill and

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. His ''

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'' contains valuable criticisms on Paracelsus and Giordano Bruno.

Quotations

Publications

* ''Ulrich Zwingli, der Charakter seiner Theologie'' (1855)
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* ''Spinoza's neuentdeckter Traktat von Gott, dem Menschen und dessen Glückseligkeit'' (1866)
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* ''Beiträge zur Lehre vom hypothetischen Urteile'' (1871)
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* ''Logik'' (1873–1878). 2 volumes. 2nd ed., 1889-1893. 3rd ed., 1904. 4th ed., 1911. 5th ed., 1924. **Volume 1, 1873. ''Die Lehre vom Urtheil, vom Begriff und vom Schluss''. 1889
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1904
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**Volume 2, 1878. ''Die Methodenlehre''
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* ''Kleine Schriften'' (1881). 2 volumes
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2nd ed., 1889. * ''Vorfragen der Ethik'' (1886). * ''Die Impersonalien, eine logische Untersuchung'' (1888)
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English translations

*''Logic'' (1895). (Tr. Helen Dendy) **Volume 1. ''The Judgment, Concept, and Inference''
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**Volume 2. ''Logical Methods''
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sigwart, Christoph Von 1830 births 1904 deaths People from the Kingdom of Württemberg German philosophers German untitled nobility 19th-century philosophers 19th-century German people German logicians German Lutherans University of Tübingen faculty Members of the Privy Council of Württemberg 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers 19th-century Lutherans