“ A substance, on the contrary, is self-existent; in speaking about it, we need not put of after its name. A stone is not the stone of any thing; the moon is not the moon of any thing, but simply the moon. ”
John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (1843). copy citation
Author | John Stuart Mill |
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Source | A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive |
Topic | moon rich |
Date | 1843 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html |
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“An attribute, say the school logicians, must be the attribute of something; color, for example, must be the color of something; goodness must be the goodness of something; and if this something should cease to exist, or should cease to be connected with the attribute, the existence of the attribute would be at an end. A substance, on the contrary, is self-existent; in speaking about it, we need not put of after its name. A stone is not the stone of any thing; the moon is not the moon of any thing, but simply the moon. Unless, indeed, the name which we choose to give to the substance be a relative name; if so, it must be followed either by of , or by some other particle, implying, as that preposition does, a reference to something else: but then the other characteristic peculiarity of an attribute would fail; the something might be destroyed, and the substance might still subsist.”
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