21 Aug 1814

Logic

Ch. Division

'. Synthesis and Analysis

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In the formation of the idea /aggregate idea/ corresponding /designated/ to the term man - in the formation of the classical psychical aggregate termed man, the attention has turned itself aside from all the several simple ideas presented alike /that have alike been presented/ by the abovementioned individual aggregates, turning itself at the same time, and therefore confining itself to such of those simple ideas as have been presented by every individual of /belonging to/ that class comprised /comprehended/ under that appellation /appellative/; and those to which it has thus exclusively turned itself and confined itself it may be said by so doing to have abstracted i.e. drawn off from the rest. It is thus that, to the process or operation or process by which in this way {these} classical aggregates are formed, the term abstraction has been applied, and to the classical aggregates themselves, the term abstract ideas, as well as /in coordination /in opposition to and/ with that of/ general ideas.

These explanations premised, the time may have come for observing, that, where of the name of a classical aggregate the extent is to a certain degree considerable, it will scarcely have been formed but by a repetition /repeated perfromances /exercises// or repetiotion of the process of abstraction, a certain number /cluster/ of ideas having been first abstracted or as it were distilled from the cluster contained in the several individual i.e. physical aggregates, and from the product of this first distillation others drawn off to compose what may be termed a classical aggregate of the 2nd stage from the bottom, from this product of the 2nd distillation others again drawn off to compose an aggregate of the 3rd order /stage from the bottom/, and so on.

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