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21 Aug 1815 Jug True I Prolegomena
21 Aug 1815

Jug True

I Prolegomena

Ch. Imperfection Evidentiary

3

§. Marks of verity

1. Essentially concomitant or individualizing circumstances—accidentally concomitant circumstances—to one or other of these two classes with every assignable concomitant circumstance it is believed to be found referable.

The essentially concomitant circumstances are the circumstances of place and time. These may also be stiled individualizing circumstances and that for the following reason.

1. No individual event or state of things whatever can have existence but it must exist in some determinate individual portion of time.

2. No individual event or state of things can have existence but it must exist in some determinate individual portion of space.

3. Take any portion of space no two individual atoms or aggregates of atoms of the same bulk can have placement in the same portion of time.

4. Thence it is that it is of some one individual body or portion of matter and no other, that any statement by which if that portion of matter is stated as occupying in that portion of time that portion of space can be true.

5. Hence it is that taken together, the circumstances of place and time may with relation to any and every event or state of things, be termed individualizing circumstances.

4.

Concomitant circumstances are

1. Essentially concomitant.

2. Accidentally concomitant.

5.

1. Essentially concomitant are those of place and time. These may be termed individualizing circumstances.

6.

Aphorisms respecting individualizing circumstances

1. No event or state of things can have had existence but in some determinate individual portion of space.

2. So of time.

3. In no individual portion of space can two portions of matter each of a bulk equal to it have had place at the same moment or atom of time.

7.

4. Hence to one an individual portion of matter and no other can a report ascribe the having at a given point of time occupied a given corespondent portion of space, and be true.

5. Hence these correspondent circumstances of place and time are with reference to each assignable event or state of things, individualizing circumstances.
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