JB_101_206.xml

Title: [16 Aug. 1814 '.3. Logic Ch]

Description: 16 Aug. 1814 '.3.

Logic

Ch. Clearness Exposition

'.3.1. Individualization

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'.3. Mode of Exposition where the thing which is the subject is an individual - or Individualization, individual and generic.

Thus much being premised -

The word in question is either the name of an individual object, or the name of a species or sort of objects.

If it be the name of an individual object, individualization is the generic /general/ of /by which/ the only species /mode/ of exposition of which (regard being had at the same time to the subject) the name of an individual object is susceptible.

Individual individualization - generic or specfic individualization - by these two denominations may be distinguished two modes of individualization which for practical purposes may require to be distinguished.

Individual individualization is where of /in relation/ an individual object an indication is endeavoured to be given an indication whereby or by the help of which that /an individual/ object may be distinguished from all or any other individual objects wherewith it is regarded as being liable to be confounded. Take, for instance, on the surface of the earth, the designation of the several distinguishable portions which it contains: and into which physically or psychically speaking it is capable of being divided. In so far as the portion in question is considered as relatively large, Geography is the portion of art or /and/ science - Geography, to which with the assistance /help/ of Astronomy the individualization of the object is considered as appertaining: Topography, in so far as it is considered /regarded/ as relativly small. From Geography will be sought in /on/ the earths surface /of the terraqueous globe/, the portion distinguished by the name of Europe. From Geography again in Europe England; in England, London & Westminster. In London and Westminster Queen's Square Weatminster and Queen's Square Place.

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JB_102_491.xml

Title: [30 Jan y. 1816 Chrestom or Language]

Description: 30 Jan y. 1816

Chrestom or Language

Ch.2 Signs viz. Propositions

'.1 Single Propositions

 [...?]. Propositions, why spoken of before terms. Proposition, the integer: time but a fraction - result of the decomposition of a proposition.

Brutes incapable of the decomposition: their language is all in propositions.

Ch.│ │ Signs employed for the designation of these phænomena, viz. Propositions: - their modifications or species - their consituent parts or contents.

'.1. Collections of signs, i.e. Propositions expressive of some state of the perceptive faculty, considered as having for the source of the perception, a corporeal object or objects.

Correspondent to the objects to be designated, such must be the signs by which they are designated.

Correspondent to the states, and modifications of which corporeal objects are susceptible, such must be the modifications of the signs which, under the name of language or discourse, are employed in the designation of them.

Every proposition by which any portion of matter is brought to view - is presented to the mind - has for its subject either some material body, some portion of a body, or some collection of bodies, or portions of bodies, or of bodies, and portions of bodies.

The sign or portion of language, by which any such modification or modifications of matter are presented to the mind is termed a name, a denomination, an appellation, an appellative.

By any such name, what is designated is either a single body, a part of a single body, or an aggregate of bodies, or of parts of single bodies.

If a part of a body be spoken of by itself, it is in so far considered as a whole.

If it be a single body, the mode in which that body is spoken of is either determinate or indeterminate: if determinate, the name is stiled a proper name: if it be an aggregate of bodies, it is stiled a common name.

If the individuals designated by such common name be all determinate, it is or may be stiled a collective name, in so far as any of them are indeterminate, a generic or specific name.

If being a single body it be indeterminate, it has for its denomination a common name, whether collective or generic, being the name of the aggregate of which it is considered as an unit, coupled with a species of sign denominated a pronoun adjective of which by and by.

JB_102_045.xml

Title: [28 Sept. 1814 Logic 1]

Description: 28 Sept. 1814

Logic

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Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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Place. Of the species of relation designated by the word place, a /the most perfect/ conception may be easily formed by taking into the account the species of relation designated by the word time.

Necessary altogether is the relation which the species of fictitious entity called place has on the one hand to the fictitious entity called body on the other hand to the fictitious entity called Space.

Space has already been distinguished into absolute and relative. To absolute space there are no conceivable bounds; to relative space, i.e. to portions of space separated from one or other by bodies, there are, in every instance, bounds, and those determinate ones.

As to the word place, whether it be considered as the name of a real entity or as the name of a fictitious entity, would be a question of words, barely worth explanation, and not at all worth debate.

Considered as a modification of space, it would, like that, stand upon the footing of the name of a real entity; considered as a species of relation, it would stand upon, the footing of a fictitious entity. But in this latter case comes an objection: viz. that the relations which on that occasion are in question, are not place itself, or places themselves, but such relations as belong to place.

Be this as it may place is a relative portion of space, considered either as actually occupied, or as capable of being occupied, by some real entity of the class of bodies.

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