23 Sept. 1814

Logic

Ch.1. Ontology

Entities real fictitious &c.

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Of fictitious entities whatsoever is predicated is not consistently with strict truth, predicated (it then appears) of anything but their respective names.

But considering that /forasmuch as/ by reason of its length and compoundedness, the use of the compound denomination name of a fictitious entity would frequently be found attended with inconvenience, for avoiding /the avoidance of/ this inconvenience, instead of this long denomination, the less long, though, unhappily, still compound denomination, fictitious entity, will commonly, after the above warning, be employed.

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