MS 434 (1902) - Minute Logic - Chapter IV

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Logic IV. 12 (This immensely long not must be transposed to the end of the chapter)

self questioning, as what we do on do not desire and such premisses of psychology one here precisely the conclusions of which we are in quest. So we must make up our minds to rely entirely upon self-questioning with here and there perhaps some secondary aid from psychology.

I propose to call that phase of the mind to which we make appeal, they Conscience, although it is not precisely moral conscience, since we go back to a stage of thought before we have developed that idea of morality. We are not to ask ourselves what we ought to do, but whether we are on the whole deliberately content to regard a given end as good in itself regadless of its consequences. But at this moment, I have to defend my calling our own disposition, educated under the name of experience and coming to consciousness in answer such questioning by the name of conscience,

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Logic IV. 13 (footnote continued) to such questionings, by the name of Conscience. The matter of terminology is no trifling one in any branch of science. It is most desireable to bring about a general usage and to adhere to it. After much reflections, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to bring about such as agreement in philosophy is to induce philosophers to adjere strictly to reasonable rules and as such a code of rules I promise the following. Shoud it be found that they produce inconveniences, let the matter be discussed in a general way and let the rule be modified by general consent. but as long as the rule remains unmodified, let it be regarded as an offence to violate it. It is to be understood that these rules realte only to the use of words and phrases as strict philo-

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Logic IV. 14 sophical terms, and are not intended to restrict the use of them in ordinary language. Rule I. Unambiguous latin terms of which accurate definitions were universally accepted in the scholastic middle ages are to be restricted to those meanings, except as here in after provided. For terms of Greek from, the Greek authorities should be Romance language, unless perhaps the Italian oght to be regarded as exceptional, were formed durign the early middle ages, from the popular Latin and even Anglo-sazon was sensibly affected by the same influence. When the scholatic philosophy came, those languages and Englush, too, borrowed substantially its entire terminology, so that it became a part of every day speech. An a later time when German began to be used as a philosophical language,

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the philosophical terms were for the most part chosen so as much of less to recall their Latin equivalents which the earlier writers commonly give in explanation of the German words. There would be no trouble in writing down hundred of such approximate correspondences as acceptic= Auffessernce, accidentalis- zufallig, actualis= wriklich, acquivoce= gleichnalimig, aftertio=veranderung, actecedens=vordersatoz, apprehensio=Enfasseng etc. Keegel was the first to atempt an independent vocabulary for German philosophy. He wished his love to be for Germans alone and it is highly desireable that his will should be respected. There are all an fate well settled equivalent in German for the great majroty of the terms of scholastic philosophy. The exceptions are due to scholastic ways of thinking having been forgotten. They are even more numberous in French. But the English has retained the mass of scholastic phrases

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Logic IV. 16. foot note continued

in the vernacular in approximately their original senses and this is one of the circumstances which render English the best of all languages modern or ancient for modern philosophical purposes. For more pains were taken in scholastic times to make philosophical languages precise and definite than had ever before been taken since. Accordingly the rule proposed would remedy the present most disadvantageous state of terminology and [furnish?] the nucleus of a philosophical vocabulary of great perfection with the minimum of derangement of existing languages while it would be particularly favorable to the English language and would tend to prevent its follwoing futher the ambiguities and tastelessness of the German.

Rule II. For all philosophical conceptions which the scholastic terminology leaves unsignified additional terms should be provided and the terms first proposed with

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