10 Aug. 1813 M

Logic

Language

'. Copiousness. Conciseness

Tractability

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Ch. II. Copiousness - Conciseness - Tractibility -

Of language the use and the sole use - being the communication of ideas - in proportion to its copiousness will be the usefulness, and in so far the excellence of every language.

But be the particular language what it will, at no one point of time will it contain within itself a stock of words, such as, without prejudice to the perfection of all these other desirable properties, shall be capable of giving expression to all the ideas for the expression of which a demand is capable of having place at a succeeding point of time. Hence in the property of copiousness, if considered as a constantly existing property or quality, the idea of tractibility is necessarily included.

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