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Logic

Ch Paraphrasis etc.

'.1. Explanation

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Ch.7. Of Exposition by Paraphrasis with its subsidiary operations, viz. Phraseoplerosis and Archetypation.

'.7 Explanation of these modes of exposition, and of the case in which they are necessary.

Paraphrasis is that mode of exposition which is the only instructive mode, where the thing expressed in /being/ the name of a fictitious entity, has not any superior in the scale of logical subalternation.

Attached to and /Connected, and that/ necessarily connected with Paraphrasis, is an operation, for the designation of which the word Phraseoplerosis /Phraseoplerosis/ (i.e. the filling up of the phrase,) may be employed.

By the word Paraphrasis may be designated that sort of exposition which may be afforded by transmuting into a proposition, having for its subject some real entity, a proposition which has not for its subject any other than a fictitious entity.

Nothing has no properties. A fictitious entity being, as this its name imports, being, by the very supposition, a mere nothing, cannot of itself have any properties: no proposition by which any property is ascribed to it can, therefore, be in itself, and of itself, a true one, nor, therefore, an instructive one. Whatsoever of truth is capable of belonging to it cannot belong to it in any other character than that of the representative - of the intended and supposed equivalent and adequate succedaneum, of some proposition having for its subject some real entity.

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