JB_102_062.xml

Title: [30 Sept. 1814 Logic 6]

Description: 30 Sept. 1814

Logic

6

Ch.2. Ontology

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6

To the case and to that alone, in which, the motion or motions, being of the thelematic and therein moreover of the ergastic kind, have had for their prime mover or principal agent concerned a rational or at least a sentient being, belong the words end, design, and means - end, operation, means, design.

Of the word end, and its synonym - the compound term end-in-view, an /the/ exposition has been already given, the idea of some good (i.e. pleasure or exemption from pain in this or that shape or shapes) as about eventually to result to the agent in question from the proposed act in question.

The term /word/ means is a term alike applicable with equal propriety to the designation of body considered in the character of an instrument, or any action or motion considered in the character of an operation, tending to the production of a work, or any good looked to in the character of an end.

Productive and unproductive - under one or other of these denominations, as the case is /may/ be, may be referred the action in question in the case /in so far as/ where being of the thelematic and moreover of the ergastic kind, it has for its end in view the bringing into existence any intended result in the character of a work.

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JB_101_392.xml

Title: [17 Oct. 1814 Logic Ch. │ │]

Description: 17 Oct. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Invention & Judgment

'.3 Helps to all

*7

*2

 Added 17 Oct 1814. Quere whether to add these to the list of separate rules?

Ought not this to be applied to the assistance and direction of the judgment? See Ch. Methodization under that head:

Rule. In taking a survey of practice, distinguish in it as many distinguishable points as the nature of the case appears to afford, and on each of those points, try its utility and propriety by its relation to the end.

Examples. The field of medical practice is a field in which many examples indicative of the utility of this rule might be collected. In the comparatively antient system of pharmacy may be found medicines in the composition of which drugs to the amount of twenty or thirty different sorts, of which, by comparatively recent observation, experience and experiment all but two or three have been found either wholly inoperative or unconducive to the end.

In every part of the field, in which the practice has not yet been thus dissected, and its several distinguishable parts or points[?] confronted with the proper end, uninfluencing circumstances and even obstructive circumstances, i.e. obstacles, may be seen confounded with promotive causes, and the result be it what it may, ascribed without distinction to their conjunct agency: and, in this way, the character of promotive causes ascribed to uninfluencing and even to obstructive causes.

Of this mode of confusion, examples will naturally be to be found in abundance in the system of government established in every country, and in particular in that branch which regards constitutional law. Of whatsoever measure of prosperity the state may be supposed to be in the enjoyment of, as many abuses and imperfections as by the theory or practice of it have place, will by all those who profit by them, be of course placed more or less confidently and explicitly upon the list of promotive causes.

See the work on Fallacies.

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JB_102_068.xml

Title: [30 Sept. 1814 Logic 11]

Description: 30 Sept. 1814

Logic

11

Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

46

12

{Purely natural, purely factitious, and mixed: to one or other of these heads may every motion be referred, considered with reference to the part which the human will is capable of bearing in the production of it.}

{Solid, liquid, or gaseous, - in one or other of these states, at the time of the motion, will the moving body be found.}

The internal constitution of the moving body - the internal constitution of the unmoveable or unmoving /non-moving/ bodies with which it comes in contact, and the configuration of these same bodies; - upon all these several circumstances, or rather groups of circumstances, must the nature of the ultimate effect produced by the motion be dependent, - whether that effect be a purely physical result, or a human work.

In so far then as, by the term cause, nothing more is meant to be designated than one alone of all those sets of co-operating circumstances; be the effect what it may, the cause can never of itself be adequate to the production o

f it; nor, between the quantum of the effect and the quantum of the cause, can any determinate proportion have place.

But, of the case in which, in the extent given to the import attributed to the word cause the whole assemblage of these influencing circumstances is taken into the account and comprised, it seems questionable whether so much as a single example would be to be found.

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