JB_101_165.xml

Title: [24 July 1814 Logic Ch. │ │]

Description: 24 July 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Predicaments

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In the instance of all the remaining predicaments, seven in number, the predicament is the name of a relation: in the fourth instance relation is itself the name of the predicament: and this name is the generic name with reference to which all the remaining predicaments are specific ones: they are, all of them, so many species of relation.

Of a relation it is the essential character to suppose the existence of two objects between which the relation is spoken of as subsisting: Of this sort is the sort of image - the sort of fictitious picture which the mind presents to itself. Two objects - two bodies of any sort - A and B: between them an interval: of space: in that interval the fictitious body the relation is conceived as placed: for such is the picture exhibited to the mind by the word between as often as it is applied to two bodies - to two substances of any kind.

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JB_101_171.xml

Title: [30 July 1814 Logic Ch. │ │]

Description: 30 July 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Predicaments

'.2. Post Predicaments

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1. Oppositio - Opposition. This is manifestly a species of Relation.

Of Opposition the Aristotelians distinguish four different modes, of which presently.

2. Prioritas. Priority. This again is another sort of Relation.

3. Simultas: another Relation: viz. that which takes place between two objects which with relation to each other are contemporary: i.e. exist in or during the same point or length of time.

Note that Priority can not have place without posteriority: no object can go before matter which is going likewise but this other must come after. Yet of posteriority nothing is here said.

4. Motus. Motion. In the field of thought and action this is an object of the most important and most extensive use.

Of all the ten predicaments there is not one, Substantia excepted, whose title to a place upon the list seems so incontrovertible, as that of this article. As to its make[?] - it is, as well as substance - matter - body, among the objects of which quantity and quality are predicable: like substance it ought to have preceded both these predicaments.

Action - actio the 5 th. of the predicaments is but related to it as a species to its superordinate species of motion.

Like substantia substance, and on as correct a ground, motion, denotes an object, of which quantity, as well as quality are predicable │ │ itself substantial exempt[?] (so to speak) to be susceptible of quantity and quality.

For its non admittance into the list of predicaments what possible reason can [...?] have presented itself?

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JB_102_051.xml

Title: [24 Sept. 1814 Chap V + Logic]

Description: 24 Sept. 1814 Chap V +

Logic

Ch 4 Sec 5

1

Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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Subject - Object - Subject - {Concomitance} - {End}

Groups of Concomitant entities considered and denominated in respect of their concomitancy.

In the idea of an object the idea of some action or at any rate some motion seems to be constantly and [...?] /essentially/ involved. Where the object is a corporeal entity, it is a body towards which the body in motion moves: this body whether permanently or momentarily stands objected i.e. cast before that other body which moves.

Even in the case of vision, in the instance of an object of sight, the relation is naturally the same; the only difference is that, in the case of vision, the moving bodies being the rays of light, the object instead of being the body towards which, is the body from which, the motion takes place.

In the image /picture/ the tracing of which is the effect of the terms /names/ here in question the object is either on the same level with the source of motion, or above it: the subject, as in its literal sense the word subject imports, is below and under it.

In the case of human action - a motion, real or fictitious considered as being produced by an exercise of the faculty of the will, on the part of a sensitive being, this action has, in every instance, for its cause, the desire and expectation of some good i.e. of some pleasure or exemption from some pain, and the entity, the good by which this desire has been produced, is in this case, if not the only object, an object, and, indeed, the ultimate object, the attainment of which is, in the performance of the action aimed at.

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