28 July 1814 [also: Aug. 1814 and 21 Sept. 1814]

Logic

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Ch.2. End etc.

'.6. Subject Field

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1. Aug. 1814 Postpone this topic till after Operations - perhaps till after Faculties

Object accordingly at every step to cover the whole field, as a pond or stream is endeavoured to be covered with dragnets; to cover the whole of the ground [...?] of which covered by Aristotle, Bacon and Locke

As to its field or subject - the subject on which its operations are performed - it is neither more nor less than the entire field of human thought and action. In it is included /accordingly/ the whole field of art and /science and/ science: in it is moreover included the field of ordinary i.e. unscientific thought and ordinary i.e. unartificial action or say practice: together with /including/ the whole contents of these /that/ respective fields /field/: viz. all the subjects not only of human action but of human thought. all entities not only real but fictitious not only all real entities, but all fictitious ones that have ever been feigned, or remain capable of being feigned: fictitious entities - those necessary products /points/ of the imagination without which fictitious /unreal/ as they are, language could not - scarcely could even thought, be carried on: and which, by being embodied as it were in a name /in names/, and thus put upon a footing with real ones, have been /are/ so apt to be mistaken for real ones. Thus in one or other of these two divisions the whole field of human thought and action is included /comprehended/.

21 Sept. 1814. Logic which has for the object of its exercize and endeavours the the [sic] rational faculty is the art of applying reason with the utmost possible advantage to all the subjects to which it is capable of being applied of being made to apply itself.

On the one hand, artificial action or practice and scientific thought - on the other hand ordinary /trivial/ or inartificial practice and ordinary /trivial/ or unscientific thought and ordinary /trivial/ and inartificial practice - under these two divisions taken together the whole field of human thought as well as the whole field of human action can not, it is evident fail of being comprehended /concluded/.

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