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Logic

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IV. Faculties

'. Their Enumeration

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Of a set of fictitious entities, to give a list, neither the correctness nor the completeness of which shall be exempt from dispute or doubt, cannot be a very easy task. Of the following articles, neither the perceptibility - (meaning that sort of perceptibility of which these sorts of fictitious entities are susceptible) neither the perceptibility nor the mutual distinctness, say rather distinguishability, seems much exposed to dispute.

* 1. Perception; or say, perceptive faculty, alias simple apprehension.

* 2. Judgment; or say, judicial faculty.

* 3. Memory; or say, retentive faculty.

* 4. Deduction; or say, ratiocinative or deductive faculty: that by which a number of judgments, i.e. acts of the Judicial faculty are deduced, one from another.

5. Abstraction; or say, abstractive faculty.

* 6. Imagination; or say, imaginative faculty, whereby a number of abstracted ideas, results or products of the exercise of the abstractive faculty, are compounded and put together.

7. Invention; or say, inventive faculty: whereby, out of a number of the products of the abstractive faculty, such compounds are formed as are new, i.e. were never produced before. Invention is imagination directed in its exercise to the attainment of some particular end.

8. Methodization; or say arrangement, or the exercise of what may be termed the tactic faculty. It may be employed in the service of any one or more of the several faculties above-mentioned.

9. Attention; or say, the attentive faculty. The exercise of this faculty seems to be the result of an exercise of the will; of a special application made of the power of that faculty, to the purpose of attaching to their work, with different degrees of force, and for different lengths of time, any one or more of the several distinguishable faculties above-mentioned.

10. Observation. In this are included perception, memory, judgment, and commonly ratiocination, set, and kept at work, by attention, and directed commonly in their exercise, to the accomplishment of some particular end.

* 11. Communication; or say, the communicative faculty: a faculty which may have for its subject the results or products of the exercise of any one or more of the several faculties above-mentioned. Speaking, writing, and pantomime, i.e. discourse by gestures, or otherwise by deportment, are so many modes in and by which it is exercised.

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