Iii.—a New ‘Law of Thought’ and Its Implications

“Bad philosophy” and “derivative philosophy”: Labels that keep women out of the canon

“…Anscombe (1981) would later, in her first Moral Sciences Club paper, discuss games she played to teach her children colour words (MacCumhaill and Wiseman 2022, 191). Jones explains the conditional by means of the example “If Kate marries Peter, she will be wretched,” on the grounds that “Peter is a miser,” and she demonstrates how to refute a hypothetical conditional, “If Ferdinand marries Henrietta [who is in debt], he will be ruined,” by considering the possibility that “Henrietta were herself a millionaire” (1911, 46). Stebbing illustrates logical reasoning from empirical generalisations by starting with the observation “Don't wear that dress at the seaside, for it will fade” (1930, 8) and walking the reader through a series of logical inferences about shades of blue, sea air, and chemical instability of dyes.…”

Memory, concept, judgment, logic (theory).

“…So are the dimensions of space. (7) Parallelism in all difference. Not mere occasionalism but a process of qualitative change incident to serial mediation.…”