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A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive quotes

John Stuart Mill

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“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The second general division of names is into concrete and abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute of a thing.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential one: we may say, A ghost is a disembodied spirit, without believing in ghosts.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“A concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive

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