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2 Aug. 1814 M Logic Ch. 2.
2 Aug. 1814 M

Logic

Ch. 2. End &c.

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To the declaration of the existence of such recollection - or rather of the existence of a persuasion of the existence of such recollection may or may not be added as it may happen a persuasion affirmative or disaffirmative of the supposed matter of fact the existence of which was the subject of the report in question supposing such report to have been made, as according to the recollection it was made.

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    The existence of any describable /expressible/ state of things, or of persons, or of both, whether it be quiescent or moving /motional/ or both, at any given point or portion of time, is what is called a fact - or a matter of fact.

    In so far as the results /act/ of perception the memory or the judgement the existence of which is, in and by the discourse delivered by the communicator in question represented as being the result of the exercise not of his own faculties but of the faculties of some other person the declaration so made by the communicator in question, is termed a report - a report made concerning the state of the things or persons which is therein and thereby averred and declared.

    In this case, and thus far, the whole of the subject of the report as declared by the reporter - the only matter of fact of the existence of which, by such his communication, the communicator as such declares the existence - is the matter of fact that to the purport in question at the time in question (if mentioned) a declaration was by this other person made.

    At the time of the communication made that which is declared as being present to the mind of the communicator, is neither more nor less than a recollection, or rather more correctly, the persuasion of the existence of a recollection - a work of the memory, by which, the fact of his having, at the time in question, by means of one or more of his senses, received and obtained a perception of the matter of fact so described as above, the description of which is, - the fact that at the time in question, by the person in question, a declaration to the purport or effect in question was made.

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  • Title: [2 Aug 1814 Logic 1 3]
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    Persuasion, supposed recollection, supposed perception - all fallible: actual sensation or feeling the only subject of infallible persuasion: the supposed cause of it not in the case of any of the senses.

    Discourse, nothing but a persuasion:- practical inference moderation: i.e. habitually declared recognition of the above truth.

    Fallibility of human persuasion - more or less probable falsity of all declarations, by which the existence of a persuasion to any effect is asserted - falsity, whether accompanied or not with self-consciousness in the former of which cases it is termed mendacity - these are among the truths[?] which, whether it be for the exclusion of obstinate error, or for the exclusion of arrogance, overbearingness, obstinacy, and violence, ought never to be out of mind.
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    Of the cases in which /where/ the faculty the state of which is declared is the perceptive faculty - or of the case in which it is the retentive faculty no separate consideration need be made: for seldom indeed is either the perceptive or the retentive faculty in exercise or operated upon, but an act or exercise of the judicial faculty is performed /mixed with it/.

    Remains for consideration the judicial faculty:

    If /When/ concerning the state of the judicial faculty a declaration is expressed, the existence of a persuasion in some shape or other - an opinion, a belief in relation to some object or other, is thereby expressed.

    {This object-} the declared subject of this persuasion - will be the state either of the communicator's own mind, or of some exterior object or aggregate of exterior objects - exterior viz. in relation to his own mind.

    {Be} the portion of time in or in relation with reference to which the state of this exterior object or aggregate of objects is considered and declared, will, with reference to the portion of time in which the declaration is made be either present, past or future: or all those or any two of those portions of relative time.

    The exterior objects concerning which such declaration is made will belong either to the class of persons or that of things, or to both these classes.

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