7 Aug. 1814 A +

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

'. │ │ Subjects of denomination

Entities 1 real 2 fabulous 3 fictitious

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'.4. Subjects of methodization by denomination - real entities - fictitious entities.

{1}

Of methodization, in so far as performed by denomination, the subjects, the immediate subjects - are names and nothing more: things? - yes: - but no otherwise than through the medium of their names.

{ {3}

If of this operation things were the only subjects, after names of persons names there would be none, other than such as are the names of things. But of names that are not names of things, there are abundantly more than of names that are.}

{2}

It is only by means of names, viz. simple or compound, that things are susceptible of arrangement: understand of arrangement in the psychical sense; in which sense, strictly speaking, it is only the ideas of the things in question that are the subjects of the arrangement, not the things themselves. Of physical arrangement the subjects are the things themselves: the animals, (suppose) the plants - the minerals, viz. as disposed in a museum: of psychical, the names, and, through the names, the ideas of those several objects: viz. as disposed in a systematic work on the subject of the correspondent branch of Natural Philosophy - on the subject of Zoology, Botany or Mineralogy.

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