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  1. C. S. Peirce on Jeremy Bentham: “A shallow logician” confined to analysis of “lower motives”.Yanxiang Zhang - 2024 - Theoria 90 (3):264-280.
    C.S. Peirce offered an evaluation of Bentham's philosophy to the effect that on some points Bentham's performance was of great value, but essentially, he was ‘a shallow logician’ confined to analysis of ‘lower motive’. This paper argues that Bentham's logic is deeply metaphysically based, multi‐levelled, and comprehensive. There are at least three constituent parts in his utilitarian logic: the first is his ontology, with its distinction between real and fictitious entities, and with pain and pleasure constituting the core real entities; (...)
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