...tempting to say something like - here Mill quotes Richard Whately - the object of reasoning is "merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted" (Mill 1973-4, l &5, quoting Whately 1973, 216). To this Mill replies that Whately "does not, I think,...

...reasoning powers. " The object of all reasoning," as stated by a very acute Logician,1 " is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up, as it...were, and implied in those with which we set out," in other words, it is to convince a person, that the thing to be proved is a legitimate consequence...