JB_102_064.xml

Title: [30 Sept. 1814 Logic 8]

Description: 30 Sept. 1814

Logic

8

Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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In the use frequently made of the word cause, may be seen an ambiguity, which, in respect of its incompatibility with any correct and clear view of the relation between cause and effect, there may be a practical use in endeavouring to remove from the field of thought and language.

On the one hand - a motion an action an operation - on the other hand an agent an operator - an author: to the designation of both these in themselves perfectly distinct objects the words are wont to be indiscriminately applied.

Take for example the questions that used to be agitated in the logical schools. Is the moon says one of them the cause or a cause of the flux and reflux of the sea. Here the moon, here the word cause is employed to designate a corporeal being considered in the character of an agent.

The cause (says a position of which frequent sense was made in the same theatres of disputation) the cause is always proportioned to its effect. But between the moon himself /itself/ and the tide, i.e. the flux and reflux of the sea, there can not be any proportion: they are disparate entities: the one the moon a real entity; the other the flux and reflux i.e. the motions of the sea are but fictitious entities. Between the moon itself, and the water moved by it, i.e. between the quantity of both, proportion may have place; between the motion, and thence the action of the moon, and the motion of the waters, a proportion may have place. But, between the moon, a body, and the flux and reflux of the sea, no proportion can have place, neither can either be larger or smaller than the other.

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JB_101_128.xml

Title: [14 Oct. 1814 Logic 1]

Description: 14 Oct. 1814

Logic

1

Ch.3.III. Operations

'.6.V. Subjects many

Designation

Denomination - Collective

3 Methodization

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3. Methodization, or Arrangement.

Of this operation, as will more particularly be seen further on under a separate head thus denominated, there are two distinguishable modes: for the designation of one of which the words collective {or cumulative,} of the other the word lineal may be employed: or instead of the lineal mode of methodization, the term methodization by means of precedence may be employed.

To collective or cumulative methodization: {the use of} one of the operations above designated by the term denomination, viz. collective denomination, seems to be an altogether indispensable requisite. A general name is the common - the necessary - tie, by which a number of general or abstract ideas are fixed and fastened together in the mind.

In what respect then is collective methodization distinct from collective denomination? In this only, that where the word methodization is employed, a multitude of groupes or collections of general ideas are considered as being at the same time formed or brought together, and at the same time so constituted and disposed that two or more, each having its collective name or denomination, are connected together by and comprehended within some common name, some name which, being common to them both and not applied to any other, serves at the same time to distinguish them from all objects to which different names have been applied:- the new and larger groupes thus formed being at the same time, in company with some other groupe or groupes formed in the same manner, formed into some still more capacious multitudinous groupe; and so on through any number of processes of ulterior aggregation.

JB_101_096.xml

Title: [22 Aug. 1814 Ch.IV. '.5 + Logic]

Description: 22 Aug. 1814 Ch.IV. '.5 +

Logic

Ch.4.IV.V.VI.VII Faculties etc.

'.5. Distinctive character

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{13 Oct. 1814. This '. of the IV to be rewritten from the subjoined Rudiments.

'.4. Distinctive character of this art as compared with other arts and sciences.}

What distinguishes this art from every other branch of art and science is - that in its field of action are contained the several fields of actions of all those other branches of science and art: in the field of action of this discipline

* are included the several fields of action of all those other disciplines.

By what mark then does it stand distinguished from the aggregate of those disciplines? - By its generality - its amplitude - and nothing else.

Of the observations which respectively apply to the subjects of these several disciplines those which are most general may be referred to the head of logic. In no quarter therefore are those boundaries fixt, by which the field of logic is separated from the respective fields of those several other and subject disciplines.

Thus in government, the territorial field of the dominion of the sovereign is composed of the territorial fields of the dominion of the several individual and particular land-owners.

For its subject or ground to work upon, that logic - this all-embracing and all-commanding discipline has the mind - the human mind - composed as it is of, and distinguishable into, the several distinguishable faculties: viz. 1. perception. 2. retention. 3. re-exhibition or revocation. 4. attention. 5. abstraction. 6. judgment or internal persuasion. 7. imagination. 8. invention. 9. symbolization or denomination. 10. Methodization or arrangement. 11. Communication, viz. purposed or voluntary communication.

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