Jan y. 1811 +

Logic

Exposition modes of

Paraphrasis

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Paraphrasis is to exhibit the unfigurative proposition to which the figurative one to be expounded is equivalent.

Paraphrasis is the expounding of a word which is the name of a fictitious entity, by pointing out the real entities which the word in question, by being brought into company with other words, is made use of to denote.

A word which is the name of a fictitious entity may be said to be expounded by paraphrasis, when being worked up together with certain other words into the form of a proposition which is of the same signification as the former but composed of terms expressive of real entities.

N.B. This is true only when the matter of fact to be indicated is of a material nature; i:e: concerns the state of bodies: if psychological - i:e: concerns the state of a man's mind, there are no real entities in the case, unless in so far as perceptions and sensations are considered as real entities. May they not be termed real psychological entities:- Appetites, Affections, Passions, dispositions, Virtues, Vices are as unreal with reference to them as Qualities are with reference to substances.

Obligation expounded by its relation to command and punishment.