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do so.
Besides it is nonsense to sat that the science of psychology establishes such a proposition unless the subject of the belief happend to be the operatuons of the mind.
Nor can it be maintained that there is a distinct logic for reasonings whose conclusions are psychological.
The evident truth is that psychology never does prove a complusion of thought od an absolute definitive kind for conscious operations of the mind. It establishes only associational compulsion and with conquests over these Mr. Mill tells us the history of science terms.

Let us however come a little closer to the concrete I do not remember any treatise on logic which tells the reader that if Sortes is a man and all men are mortal then Sortes ought to be thought mortal.
Mill's logic certainly says no such thing.
What they all say is that Sortes must be mortal.
Logical treatises never say