2 Aug. 1814 M

Logic

Ch. 2. End &c.

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The existence of any describable /expressible/ state of things, or of persons, or of both, whether it be quiescent or moving /motional/ or both, at any given point or portion of time, is what is called a fact - or a matter of fact.

In so far as the results /act/ of perception the memory or the judgement the existence of which is, in and by the discourse delivered by the communicator in question represented as being the result of the exercise not of his own faculties but of the faculties of some other person the declaration so made by the communicator in question, is termed a report - a report made concerning the state of the things or persons which is therein and thereby averred and declared.

In this case, and thus far, the whole of the subject of the report as declared by the reporter - the only matter of fact of the existence of which, by such his communication, the communicator as such declares the existence - is the matter of fact that to the purport in question at the time in question (if mentioned) a declaration was by this other person made.

At the time of the communication made that which is declared as being present to the mind of the communicator, is neither more nor less than a recollection, or rather more correctly, the persuasion of the existence of a recollection - a work of the memory, by which, the fact of his having, at the time in question, by means of one or more of his senses, received and obtained a perception of the matter of fact so described as above, the description of which is, - the fact that at the time in question, by the person in question, a declaration to the purport or effect in question was made.

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