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in which the compulsion attacks to that subconscious thought over which we have no control and the case in which it attaches to conscious reasoning. In the former case there is no room for logical criticism at all.
But because there is nothing to be said against our thinking in a certain way in subconcious thought when we cannot do otherwise it does not at all follow that we ought to think in that way when we have our choice between several ways of thinking.
If however Mill refers to a complusion attaching to conscious thought what he no doubt has in mind is that a person ought to think the way in which he would be compelled to think if he duly reflected and made his thought clear and brought has whole knowledge to bear.
But when he asserts that in such a case there is no other reason to be given for thinking in a given way than barely that the