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Logic

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In /Of/ discourse the only immediate subject is the state of the communicator's mind: i.e. /in other words/ of some one or more of the faculties belonging to it. This /Of this proposition, the truth ere long, it is believed,/ will presently be made apparent.

The faculty the state of which is thus declared may be either the active faculty (to which belongs the volitional faculty) or the passive faculty.

If it be the volitional branch of the active faculty the discourse, in and by which expression is given to it, will be either a wish, a command /petition, a request, or a petition /command/ of which distinctions [...?] will be taken in their place /further on/.

If it be the /a/ branch of the passive faculty, that branch will be either the perceptive faculty /perception/, the memory /the retentive faculty/, or the judicial faculty /judgement/.

If it be the perceptive faculty, {in every case except that of a sensation produced by an external body by operating on the touch} the object or subject by which the sensation is produced the object the action of which is the exciting cause cannot but be present and in action at the time of the expression: at the time of the declaration made for if that object be not present, the faculty the state of which is declared, can not if the declaration be true, be any other than the memory.

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