26 July 1814 '.7.VI +

Logic

Ch.3.III. Operations

'.7.VI. Communication of ideas

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1. Purposes for which it is employ'd {1. Teaching or Information. 2. Enquiring. 3. Persuading by address to undisturbed judgement. 4. d o. by address to Passion, Emotion, Affection, &c.

Information - viz. 1. of the general state of things present, past, future.}

2. of events - i.e. actions or other motions present, past or future.

{3. Of the import of words. Information concerning the import of words is Propositio[?]. See Ch. its modes

4. Consultation for the purpose of 1. Recollection. 2. Judgment.}

 14 Oct. 1814. Quere whether to leave in this place the doctrine of Signs, or to post it off to { Ontology}, to Methodization,{?} or to { Language}?

V. Class VI. Operations, by the performance of which, by means of the operation of designation, and expression, communication of the ideas formed in one mind, is made to, and these ideas are as it were transferred into, another.

1. Discourse or discoursing. In the course of this operation, ideas, having been in one mind formed or lodged, and therein associated with and as it were attached and fastened to certain of the signs, of which discourse or language is composed, are out of that mind expressed, i.e. pressed out, for the purpose of their being received into - or say finding reception in - another.

1. Signs by means of which the operation is performed. - 2. Minds to which, and modes in which application is made of these signs,- from these two sources taken together, may the operation be seen to[?] receive whatsoever modifications it admitts of.

A difference, in the nature of the signs capable of being employed, is produced by a correspondent difference in the nature of the sense: of that one of the five senses to which the discourse is made to address itself.