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The fourth is Ethics, (of which the proper problem for each
person is simply to determine what it is for which he
is deliberately prepared to wish. It is) certainly, one of the
very subtlest of studies. The whole course of it seems to
consist in painfully extricating oneself from one pitfall
only straightaway to fall into another. It might seem that
logic was desirable in this deliberation; but I fear that
logic, as a definite theory, can be of no avail until one knows
what it is that one is trying to do, ^which is precisely what ethics has to determine. On the contrary, that has to
be settled before one can form any sound system of logic,
as we shall see in due time.

All the other sciences ^but those five, according to the principles
herein to be defended, depend upon Logic.
I do not mean merely that they practise logical reasoning;
they draw principles from the theory of logic.
This dependence will be most direct and intimate
for those sciences which stand nearest after Logic in the

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