24 July 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Predicaments

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5. and 6. By the words Actio and Passio are brought to view two of these fictitious bodies between which the particular species of relation or relations[?] respectively denominated by them are considered and represented as subsisting or having place.

Passio, Passion, can not be conceived of without Actio, action. Concerning Actio - action, the truth of that proposition if true it be seems not quite so clear. Suppose a body moving along in space: true it is that it has no other body on which it acts; but it seems too much to say that it does not act: to move is it not to act? every motion is it not a species of action?

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