10 Apr. 1803

Ch.3 Evidence

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In the above list of inconveniences, some will be found to wear a positive garb; others a negative. The garb they wear is negative, when the respectiev appellations given to them include a negative expression: /+In other words, when the acts from which they /the inconveniences/ result, are negative also: when the acts from the non-performance of which they result are positive acts/ N o 1 punishment not applied where due: N o 3 satisfaction, not applied where due:- N o 5 rights, not conferred where due. In the 8 remaining instances the garb they wear is positive: the acts from which they result being positive acts.

This mixture was unavoidable. For the purpose of marking[?] onto the several modes of action which presented themselves as proper to be avoided, the avoidance of which presented itself as a desirable result, it was necessary to find for them some common appellation, indicative of this common property. /+To give to our exertions that consistency - and thence to our conceptions that uniformity and simplicity in which every branch of practical science rectitude of intelligence /comception/ and propriety i.e: utility of conduct in so consistent a degree depend, uniformity and simplicity of expression is on this occasion as in all others, a fundamental point. But/ by no other device than as above could objects proper to be aimed at and objects proper to be avoided have been ranged under one head.

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(a) Among algebraists A device of a similar nature is part of the routine of practice among algebraists. To transfer a quantity from one side of the equation to the other is among the most familiar /frequently occuring/ of their steps[?]: and as often as a [...?] of this sort is performed, a change of the sign from positive to negative, or vice versâ, accompanies it of course.