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29 July 1814 Logic 3
29 July 1814

Logic

3

Ch.2 End &c.

3. Operations

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(a) 3 dec 1815 Several more now observed - [...?][...?][...?]

Of the six /seven or more/ distinguishable mental operations (a) to the performance of each language, now that it is formed, is instrumental and subservient, - viz. l. Perception; 2. Recollection; 3. Attention, &c.; 4. Abstraction, whence imagination and invention; 5. Judication; 6. Designation; and 7. Converse, or communication of ideas; this of communication of ideas is but one. Look back upon these others, and you will see there is scarcely one of them to which, in respect of this its intransitive use, to which, in the character of a spring, as well as a regulator of thoughts, language, {if not indispensably necessary} is not, in an eminent degree, subservient.

{Of this proposition, the truth will appear in a still stronger and stronger light as the thread of the present discourse advances.}

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