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a Uniformity and that there is a Law? It
is simply that phenomena being conceived as
having already occurred, any agreement
in the ideas they excite in the mind, is a
Uniformity while a Law is something
which has some sort of being in advance
of the occurrences and the occurrences
all conform to it. It is plain that this
Uniformity of Nature was for Stuart
Mill a great Law, although it never
occurred to him that in holding to it
he was really cutting loose from
his traditional Nominalism.

I have long ago fully expressed
myself about Mill's Logic. I am not