2 Aug. 1814 M

Logic

Ch. End &c.

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Of the cases in which /where/ the faculty the state of which is declared is the perceptive faculty - or of the case in which it is the retentive faculty no separate consideration need be made: for seldom indeed is either the perceptive or the retentive faculty in exercise or operated upon, but an act or exercise of the judicial faculty is performed /mixed with it/.

Remains for consideration the judicial faculty:

If /When/ concerning the state of the judicial faculty a declaration is expressed, the existence of a persuasion in some shape or other - an opinion, a belief in relation to some object or other, is thereby expressed.

{This object-} the declared subject of this persuasion - will be the state either of the communicator's own mind, or of some exterior object or aggregate of exterior objects - exterior viz. in relation to his own mind.

{Be} the portion of time in or in relation with reference to which the state of this exterior object or aggregate of objects is considered and declared, will, with reference to the portion of time in which the declaration is made be either present, past or future: or all those or any two of those portions of relative time.

The exterior objects concerning which such declaration is made will belong either to the class of persons or that of things, or to both these classes.

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