24 Sept. 1814 Chap V +

Logic

Ch 4 Sec 5

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Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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Subject - Object - Subject - {Concomitance} - {End}

Groups of Concomitant entities considered and denominated in respect of their concomitancy.

In the idea of an object the idea of some action or at any rate some motion seems to be constantly and [...?] /essentially/ involved. Where the object is a corporeal entity, it is a body towards which the body in motion moves: this body whether permanently or momentarily stands objected i.e. cast before that other body which moves.

Even in the case of vision, in the instance of an object of sight, the relation is naturally the same; the only difference is that, in the case of vision, the moving bodies being the rays of light, the object instead of being the body towards which, is the body from which, the motion takes place.

In the image /picture/ the tracing of which is the effect of the terms /names/ here in question the object is either on the same level with the source of motion, or above it: the subject, as in its literal sense the word subject imports, is below and under it.

In the case of human action - a motion, real or fictitious considered as being produced by an exercise of the faculty of the will, on the part of a sensitive being, this action has, in every instance, for its cause, the desire and expectation of some good i.e. of some pleasure or exemption from some pain, and the entity, the good by which this desire has been produced, is in this case, if not the only object, an object, and, indeed, the ultimate object, the attainment of which is, in the performance of the action aimed at.

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