23 Aug. 1814 '.2. +

Logic

Ch. Paraphrasis

'.2. Exenplification

Obligation etc.

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'.2. Exemplification in the case of the fictitious entity obligation {and its associates.}

For exposition and explanation of Paraphrasis, and of the other modes connected with it, and subsidiary to it, that which presents itself as the most instructive of all examples, which the nature of the case {appears to} afford{s}, is that which is afforded by the group of ethical fictitious entities, viz. Obligations, rights, and the other advantages dependent on obligation.

The fictitious entities which compose this group have all of them, for their real source, one and the same sort of real entitytermed / viz./ sensation: the word being taken in that sense in which it is significative not merely of perception, but of perception considered as productive of pain alone, of pleasure alone, or of both.

Pain (it is here to be observed) may have for its equivalent, loss of pleasure; pleasure, again, may have for its equivalent, exemption from pain.

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