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The Commentators' content

Since a large part of the interest of this book relates to the commentaries provided by J.S. Mill and his colleagues, and since no guide is given to them in the actual Table of Contents, a simple list of the more important comments is subjoined (items in bold are more substantial contributions) with the main sections of the original book indicated:

AuthorTopicPage/Note

Volume 1

AuthorINTRODUCTION[1]
AuthorCHAPTER I. Sensation[2]
Bain muscular feelings and digestive sensibility [note 1]
AuthorSECTION 1. Smell[7]
Bain arranging the senses [note 2]
Mill the meaning of ‘smell’ [note 3]
AuthorSECTION 2. Hearing[16]
Mill the meaning of ‘hearing’ [note 4]
AuthorSECTION 3. Sight[21]
Mill the meaning of ‘sight’ [note 5]
Mill the meaning of ‘vision’ [note 6]
AuthorSECTION 4. Taste[25]
Mill some physiologists’ view of taste [note 7]
Mill the meaning of ‘taste’ [note 8]
AuthorSECTION 5. Touch[28]
Bain touch [note 9]
Bain the subjectivity of the sensations of hot and cold [note 10]
Mill the meaning of ’touch’ [note 11]
Bain the sense of touch [note 12]
AuthorSECTION 6. Sensations ofDisorganization, etc. [37]
Mill the meaning of ‘itching’ [note 13]
Bain organic sensibilities [note 14]
AuthorSECTION 7. MuscularSensations, etc.[40]
AuthorSECTION 8. Sensations inthe Alimentary Canal[45]
Bain pleasure of opium or alcohol not a matter of association [note 16]
Bain digestion and not noticing sensations [note 17]
AuthorCHAPTER II. Ideas[51]
Bain discrimination and retentiveness [note 18]
Mill the idea of resistance [note 19]
Bain feelings of muscular action, not primarily a matter of Will [note 20]
Bain hunger and thirst [note 21]
Mill meaning of ‘indigestion,’ ‘hunger,’ ‘thirst’ [note 22]
Bain sensation and idea compared [note 23]
Mill can we have ideas of ideas? ideas of historical or fictional people [note 24]
AuthorCHAPTER III. The Association of Ideas[70]
Bain possibility of synchronous sensations [note 25]
Bain a limitation to association, need for unique link [note 26]
Bain difference between transient and permanent recollections [note 27]
Mill vividness [note 28]
Bain sight [note 29]
Mill exposition of ‘ideas which it is not in our power to combine’ [note 30]
Bain emotional reactions more than association [note 31]
Mill ‘laws of obliviscence’ [note 32]
Bain visual sensations usually overlooked [note 33]
Mill accounts of unnoticed feelings [note 34]
Mill attempted reduction of association by resemblance to association by contiguity [note 35]
Bain association of ideas [note 38]
Mill rejecting contrast as a principle of association [note 39]
AuthorCHAPTER IV. Naming[127]
AuthorSECTION 1. Nouns Substantive[134]
Findlater origin of names of objects [note 41]
Mill utility of names of classes [note 42]
Mill ‘heat’ etc. as names only of sensations not of ideas [note 43]
Mill Locke’s ‘mixed modes’ [note 44]
AuthorSECTION 2. Nouns Adjective[134]
Mill class names and utility of adjectives [note 45]
AuthorSECTION 3. Verbs[151]
Mill omission of predication among functions of general names [note 46]
Mill verbs [note 47]
AuthorSECTION 4. Predication[159]
Mill predication [note 48]
Mill further remark on predication [note 49]
Mill differentia, proprium and accidens [note 50]
Mill predication [note 51]
Findlater predication in non-Indo-European languages [note 53]
Mill predication and existence-claims [note 54]
Mill absence of belief in author’s account of predication [note 55]
Mill criticism of author’s account of syllogisms [note 57]
Mill names of names, genus and species [note 58]
AuthorSECTION 5. Pronouns[194]
Findlater relative and demonstrative pronouns [note 59]
AuthorSECTION 6. Adverbs[199]
Mill adverbial modification [note 60]
AuthorSECTION 7. Prepositions[201]
Findlater etymology of prepositions [note 61]
AuthorSECTION 8. Conjunctions[212]
Findlater conjunctions [note 62]
Findlater ‘but’ [note 63]
Findlater etymology of ‘if’ [note 64]
Findlater etymology of ‘because’ [note 65]
AuthorCHAPTER V. Consciousness[223]
Bain consciousness [note 74]
Mill consciousness [note 75]
AuthorCHAPTER VI. Conception[233]
Mill conceptions/general ideas [note 76]
AuthorCHAPTER VII. Imagination[238]
Bain the imagination [note 77]
AuthorCHAPTER VIII. Classification[247]
Mill utility of class names [note 78]
Grote Greek views of classification and abstraction [note 79]
Mill classification [note 80]
AuthorCHAPTER IX. Abstraction[294]
Mill general names [note 81]
Mill rejecting the author’s use of ‘connote’ [note 82]
Mill abstract names [note 83]
Findlater etymology of abstract names [note 86]
AuthorCHAPTER X. Memory[318]
Bain mention of compound association [note 88]
Mill need for belief as a component of memory [note 91]
Bain the cessation of sensations [note 93]
Mill difference between memory and imagination [note 94]
AuthorCHAPTER XI. Belief[341]
Mill belief as constituent of memory and judgment [note 95]
Mill different uses of ‘belief’ [note 97]
Mill why people do not seek a cause for a first cause [note 100]
Mill inseparable associations [note 102]
Bain belief in the uniformity of nature [note 103]
Bain qualification of the author’s remark about sight [note 104]
Bain terror and belief [note 105]
Bain testimony [note 106]
Bain belief [note 107]
Mill belief [note 108]
AuthorCHAPTER XII. Ratiocination[424]
Mill reasoning [note 109]
AuthorCHAPTER XIII. Evidence[428]
Mill evidence [note 110]
Mill belief in an external world [Appendix]

Volume 2

AuthorCHAPTER XIV. Some Names which require a particular Explanation[1]
AuthorSECTION 1. Names of Names[3]
Mill names of names [note 2]
AuthorSECTION 2. Relative Terms[6]
Mill relations [note 3]
Bain consciousness requiring change, relative names [note 4]
Bain similarity and difference [note 5]
Mill similarity [note 6]
Mill succession, antecedent and consequent [note 7]
Mill lines, geometrical and physical, [note 8]
Bain sight and space [note 9]
Bain the feeling of resistance [note 10]
Mill casual sequences [note 12]
Mill the meaning of relative names [note 13]
Mill quantity [note 14]
Mill quality [note 15]
Mill objects [note 16]
Mill more and less [note 17]
Mill why the succession of ideas is not the same in all people, simultaneous ideas and memory [note 18]
AuthorAbstract Relative Terms[72]
Mill abstract relative terms [note 19]
Mill causation not connoting present time [note 20]
Mill ‘relative’ and ‘related’ [note 21]
AuthorSECTION 3. Numbers[ 89]
Mill connotation and denotation of number words [note 22]
GroteGreek view of number [note 23]
AuthorSECTION 4. Privative Terms[ 99]
Mill author’s use of ‘privative’ [note 24]
Mill ‘silence’ ‘nothing’ [note 25]
Mill space [note 26]
Mill infinity [note 27]
AuthorSECTION 5. Time[ 116]
Mill time [note 29]
Grote Aristotle on time [note 30]
AuthorSECTION 6. Motion[ 142]
Bain resistance, motion, etc. [note 31]
Mill extensive quotation from Herbert Spencer on feelings of motion and extension [note 32]
AuthorSECTION 7. Identity[ 164]
Mill personal identity [note 33]
AuthorCHAPTER XV. Reflection[176]
Mill attention as a separate feature [note 34]
AuthorCHAPTER XVI. The Distinction between the Intellectual and Active Powers etc.[181]
Bain need for separate consideration of emotion [note 35]
AuthorCHAPTER XVII. Pleasurable and Painful Sensations[184]
Mill nature of pleasurable sensations [note 36]
AuthorCHAPTER XVIII. Causes of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations[187]
AuthorCHAPTER XIX. Ideas of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, and of theCauses of them[189]
Mill desire and aversion [note 37]
AuthorCHAPTER XX. The Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future[196]
Mill expectation [note 38]
Mill ‘hope’ and ‘fear’ [note 39]
AuthorCHAPTER XXI. The Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future[201]
AuthorSECTION 1. The immediate Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, etc.[201]
Mill a problem for author’s account of memory and expectation [note 40]
Bain distinction between aversion and fear [note 41]
AuthorSECTION 2. The Remote Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations etc.[206]
Mill notion that there are no ideas without momentary belief in the existence of their objects [note 42]
Mill pains or pleasures of others [note 43]
Bain emotions and the tender feeling [note 44]
Mill author’s dealings with the emotions [note 45]
Mill pleasure in music [note 46]
Mill pleasure in colours [note 47]
Mill beauty and sublimity (with reference to Ruskin) [note 48]
AuthorCHAPTER XXII. Motives[256]
AuthorSECTION 1. Pleasurable or Painful States, etc.[256]
Mill motives, quotation from another work of the author on motives [note 49]
AuthorSECTION 2. Causes of our Pleasurable and Painful States, etc.[265]
Mill what intensifies patriotic feelings [note 50]
AuthorCHAPTER XXIII. The Acts of our Fellow-creatures, etc.[280]
Bain prudence and courage [note 52]
Bain checks to beneficence [note 53]
Mill posthumous fame [note 54]
Mill a motive for suicide [note 55]
Mill ‘praiseworthy’ as deserving praise, not merely likely to obtain praise [note 56]
Bain incompleteness of author’s account of the moral sentiment [note 57]
Mill moral sentiments, with quotation from another work by the author; duty and punishment [note 58]
AuthorCHAPTER XXIV. The Will[327]
Mill internal bodily actions [note 59]
Bain winking under threat of a blow to the eyes [note 60]
Bain ‘fixed ideas’ [note 61]
Bain shedding tears or laughing [note 62]
Mill the will [note 63]
Bain trying to remember [note 64]
Bain dreams [note 65]
Mill attention [note 66]
Mill a gap in author’s account of voluntary action [note 67]
Bain the will [note 68]
AuthorCHAPTER XXV. Intention[396]
Mill intention [note 69]

ANALYSIS
OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE
HUMAN MIND

BY JAMES MILL