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Logic Ars traditiva[?]

Ch.│ │ Subjects, viz. Entities

6. Real entities are either, 1. such as have existence and that a separate existence - viz. substances. 2. Such as have an existence but not a separate one, viz. motions and situations. 3. Such as have no real existence: viz. qualities &c.}

7. Abstract entities can no otherwise be expressed than by fiction. Thus a billiard ball is said to be in motion, or motion in a billiard ball; or two billiard balls in a situation.

8. Two objects - two billiard balls considered in successive moments, have been either at different distances from one another or at the same distance: in the first case, they are in motion, in the second case, at rest.

9. Motion can no otherwise be defined than by diversity of distance, the portion of matter interposed between them being at one time of one length, at another time of another. Different distances are judged of by a comparison which is simultaneous; one moment I can place no more than one piece of wood of an inch long between the two balls, the next moment I can place two such pieces.

Language.

10. In a direct manner, words can not in any direct way represent any other events than what are quiescent: motion they can not represent. It is with Language in this respect as it is with Painting.

11. In all propositions, composed of or concerning fictitious and abstract entities, there are two events concerned: 1. the real event typified. 2. the fictitious event which is the archetype. The former is typified, i.e. indicated, denoted, by the analogy which the latter has with it.

12. The proposition which announces the event typified may be termed the plain or unfigurative proposition: the other, the figurative proposition.