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Hegeler Institute A LETTER FROM MR. HERBERT SPENCER Author(s): Herbert Spencer Source: The Monist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (January, 1893), p. 272 Published by: Hegeler Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27897065 . Accessed: 20/05/2014 17:27 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Hegeler Institute is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Monist. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.178 on Tue, 20 May 2014 17:27:35 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Hegeler Institute

A LETTER FROM MR. HERBERT SPENCERAuthor(s): Herbert SpencerSource: The Monist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (January, 1893), p. 272Published by: Hegeler InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27897065 .

Accessed: 20/05/2014 17:27

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CRITICISMS AND DISCUSSIONS. A LETTER FROM MR. HERBERT SPENCER.

To the Editor of The Monist :

As I feel it a duty to reserve, for other purposes, the very small power of work

now left to me, I am obliged to decline entering upon a controversy. I must leave

readers to examine for themselves?little hoping, however, that they will do so.

One point only I wish to note. The use of the expression "forms of thought,"

instead of "forms of intuition," was simply an inadvertence; as will be manifest

on observing that though I have used the wrong expression in the note, I have used

the right expression in the text (p. 203), as also throughout my criticism of Kant's

doctrine in The Principles of Psychology, Part VII, Chapter IV, "The Reasonings

of Metaphysicians,'' ? 399.

Herbert Spencer.

LOGIC AS RELATION-LORE.

In the French Revue Philosophique, in the August and September 1891 num

bers of the same, M. George Mouret has an essay entitled " Mathematical Equal

ity "

in the course of which and as though subsidiary to his ostensible purpose he

discourses upon the topics of relations and concepts and upon the fundamental

elements of logic in general. His essay is really more important as a contribution

to logical doctrine than as a treatment of mathematical equality.

The scope of his discourse will be seen by reference to his closing paragraphs in which he sums up what he considers to be the results achieved by him in his

essay. Therein, he says that he has "

treated of the general theory of the composi

tion of concepts and relations and set the foundations of the logic of analysis and

the logic of definition."

I. THE SPENCERIAN AXIOM.

The determining factor of every philosophical dissertation is of course some

very general supposition which is taken as established and which exercises a con

trolling influence over all the observations of its author.

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