2 Aug. 1814 M

Logic

Ch. 2. End &c.

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In regard to /As between/ /In respect of mobility,/ motion and rest, the state in which, in /at/ any such given point of time, they are thus considered as spoken of as existing will be either a quiescent state, i.e. a state of rest, or a moving state i.e. a state of motion.

Of these objects /The objects in question/, any such as are considered as appertaining to the class of things, will either be such as are endowed with the volitional faculty or such as are destitute of that faculty.

When considered as the result of motion, any state of things is termed an event.

Considered as having had for its cause an exertion of the volitional faculty, whether on the part of a person or of a thing, an event is itself termed an action, or is considered as having action - an action - for its cause.

It is only by /through/ some sense or senses, external or internal - i.e. physical or psychology / psychical/, that anything can be known to a man; or (to speak more correctly) that, concerning any object or aggregate of objects any persuasion can be obtained.

If it be /In so far as it is/ from his own sense or senses, external or internal that the persuasion which on the occasion in question is expressed by the communicator on the question is represented by him as obtained the persuasion is said to be indigenous: in so far as it is from a declaration made, or supposed to have been, by any other person that the persuasion so expressed is represented as being derived, it may be styled an adoptive persuasion.

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