24 July 1814 +

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

Predicaments

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 Add a view of omitted predicaments: viz. 1. Physical. 2. Politics Ethical as power, right &c.

 This not till after Ontology.

Ch.

Ch.4.[?] '.1.[?]

Of Aristotle's ten predicaments.

Aristotle's ten predicaments are all of them either names of real entities or names of fictitious entities.

Substance, the first upon the list, is the name of a real entity - of a species of real entity: the only species of real entity, as hath already been observed, that is perceptible, that belongs to the class of perceptible ones.

The nine names of fictitious entities are distinguishable into two groupes.

Groupe the first, quantity and quality. Both these are affections of substance, i.e. of substances of bodies - of the bodies the existence of which is made [known?] to us by our senses. According to the sort of fiction which in these instances is necessary to the purpose of discourse, quantity is as it were a smaller body which is in some substance in question, or a larger body in which the substance in question is. Quality is also as it were a small body in which the substance in question is: or it is a sort of object of, i.e. from which the substance of which it is the affection is considered as issuing.

/a man is said to be of a quality./

In neither of these two cases does any object necessarily come in question, excepting the substance, real or fictitious, of which they are respectively the affections.

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