28 Sept. 1814

Logic

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Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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Once placed upon the carpet /introduced into the field/, the fictitious entity called Relation, [...?] /swells/ into an extent such as to swallow up all the others. Every other fictitious entity is seen to be but a mode of this.

The most extensive and in its conception simple of all relations, i.e. of all modes or modifications of the fictitious entity, denominated relation, is that of Place, with its submodifications.

Next to that in the order of simplicity comes the modification of time with its submodifications.

Next to them come successively the relations designated by the several words, motion, rest, action, passion. Subalternation, viz. logical subalternation, opposition, and connexion, or the relation between cause and effect.

Existence with its several modifications or correspondent fictitious entities non-existence - futurity, actuality, potentiality, necessity, possibility and impossibility will with most convenience close the rear. Though still more extensive than even relation, they could not be brought to view before it, being applicable to all other relations, to relations of all sorts, and in a word, to entities, whether fictitious or real, of all sorts, - no complete, or so much as correct view of their nature and character could be given, till these less extensive ones had been brought to view.

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