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Logic

Ch. │ │ Exposition modes of

'. │ │ Individuation

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Individuation is the exposition of a term significative of an individual in as much as it is significative of an individual.

Individuation is the marking out by description, of the boundaries indicative of circumstances of place and time by which one individual is distinguished from all others of the same species.

Individuation is the description of an individual of any species in as far as there may be difficulty in distinguishing it from other individuals whether of the same or of a different species which are contiguous in place.

Individuation is either individual or generic.

Individual individuation shews how to distinguish any given individual object from any other object that is liable to be taken for a part - a con-divident part of it. Ex. gr. This house. Is this grate a part of the house or a fixture belonging to it?

Generic individuation shews how to distinguish from any sort of thing, other sorts of things that are liable to be confounded with it. Ex. gr. In regard to a house - say, a dwelling house in general, what objects are to be considered as constituting so many parts of the house, what other objects are to be considered as fixtures attached to it, but distinct from it: i.e. capable of being detached from it without ceasing to be an entire house.

Suppose an individ. really existing distinguished from all others by a name, how by the descr. given of him is that individual to be distinguished from all others of the same species? Is it by saying this is the individual who at a certain point of time occupied a certain place but this must be not large enough to contain 2 indi. of the sp. in question at the same time.

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Suppose we say it was the person who on 1 st Jan y 1826 at 12 at noon was sitting in the room called the study in Q.S.P. If at that moment of time there was no other person in that same room, the individual in question will thus be distinguished from all other persons say for ex. J. Neal, but if another individual, R. Doane was sitting at that same moment in that same room, this descr. will not suffice to distinguish the one from the other. Now suppose in that same room a box just large enough to hold a man and no more introduced for the purpose of an experiment, a coffin for ex. Say then J. Neal is the man who at the time above expressed was lying in the coffin abovementioned. The mode of descr. termed individuation will then with regard to him have been completely and unquestionably exemplified.

The indication of the mother [...?] in case of twin individualities.

So the being in any official situation doing any as it which no person was doing at the time in question.
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    '.3. Mode of Exposition where the thing which is the subject is an individual - or Individualization, individual and generic.

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