A System Of Logic Quotes

“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

topic:truth knowledge feelings consciousness

“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

topic:action feelings

“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

topic:meaning

“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

topic:philosophy theory

“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

topic:theory

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