24 July 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Predicaments

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In the instance of all the remaining predicaments, seven in number, the predicament is the name of a relation: in the fourth instance relation is itself the name of the predicament: and this name is the generic name with reference to which all the remaining predicaments are specific ones: they are, all of them, so many species of relation.

Of a relation it is the essential character to suppose the existence of two objects between which the relation is spoken of as subsisting: Of this sort is the sort of image - the sort of fictitious picture which the mind presents to itself. Two objects - two bodies of any sort - A and B: between them an interval: of space: in that interval the fictitious body the relation is conceived as placed: for such is the picture exhibited to the mind by the word between as often as it is applied to two bodies - to two substances of any kind.

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