1816. June 26

Language Constitutional Code or Penal

Form

Ch. │ │ Exposition mod

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'. │ │ Exposition modes

+ 1. What words require definition.

2. By what words definition can be given.

+ 3. Exposition - its object or end in view.

Neologism: 1. its uses: 2. its misuses: 3. its most advantageous modes.

 Before the Practical use of Logic thus applied security of rights. - Serving[?] against wrongs and punishment.

Ch. │ │ or '. │ │ Of the several modes of exposition: and in particular of Definition.

End in view or object of exposition, or say exposition matter.

The art termed exposition has for its object the causing in so far as possible the same ideas to be by the word or words in question presented to and conceived by the modes concerned.

For this purpose different forms or modes require to be employed according to the nature and import of the word, in relation to which this operation is performed.

The most commonly employed of all is that mode which is commonly[?] regarded as expressed by its word definition.

In the language of antient Logic it is stiled definitio per genus et differentiam.

It consists in an indication given of a certain class of objects to which the object in question is declared to belong - that class being designated by a denominater stiled a generic name: but the case being such that the object in question is not the only object which belongs to that class - some mark is at the same time attached, as indicative of some property which is possessed by the object in question and not possessed by any other individual or sub-class of objects included in that same class.

Here then by the bye, we have two subclasses formed by the division of any one class - of the one class in question whatever it be. But as this class is divisible into two classes say subclasses so may each of these subclasses be divided each into two bissubclasses, each bissubclass into trisubclasses, and so on without end.

[Side note:]

 Take notice in proper place that the narrational[?] system thus necessitated will form the shortest and most improper objection that can be made by persons [...?] in the abuses [...?]: it may therefore serve as a test of sincerity or discernment on the part of the objectors and of the estimate formed by them of the intellectual aptitude of those for whose eyes or ears the communicable mode of the objection is designed. An objection on this ground is a certificate of impregnability in favour of the system thus constructed[?].

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