23 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch Paraphrasis

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Of any such fictitious entity, or fictitious entities, the real entity with which the import of their respective appellatives is connected, and on the import of which their import depends, may be termed the real source, efficient cause, or connecting principle.

In every proposition by which a property or affection of any kind is ascribed to an entity of any kind, real or fictitious, three parts or members are necessarily either expressly or virtually included, viz. 1. a subject being the name of the real or fictitious entity in question; 2. a predicate by which is designated the property or affection attributed or ascribed to that subject, and 3. the copula or sign of the act of the mind by which the attribution or ascription is performed.

By the sort of proposition here in question, viz. a proposition which has for its subject some fictitious entity, and for its predicate the name of an attribute attributed to that fictitious entity, some sort of image - the image of some real action or state of things, in every instance, is presented to the mind. This image may be termed the archetype, emblem, or archetypal image appertaining to the fictitious proposition, of which the name of the characteristic fictitious entity constitutes a part.

In so far as of this emblematic image indication is given, the act or operation by which such indication is given, may be termed archetypation.

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