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Logic - Ars

Ch. 2 Characteristic

Ontology

Ch.2. Subjected [...?]

Ontology

Genl. Clarification

1. Terms are either names of real entities, or names of fictitious entities. (a) (See Note p.3)

2. Names of fictitious entities are no otherwise to be understood than by the relation which their import bears to that of real entities. v.5.  This belongs to tit.- Exposition.

3. Every proposition predicates the existence, past, present, or future, i.e. (future certain or future contingent) of some state of things which is either motional or quiescent. A motional state of things is an event.

4. (To predicate for instance the existence of a quality in a subject is to predicate the existence, viz. past, present, or future, certain or probable, of the events which are the manifestations of that quality.)

5. A proposition containing the name of a fictitious entity predicates indirectly some event as if it were real concerning the fictitious entity: at the same time, this event, being referred to an entity which is not real, can not itself be real. And this is done by means of a distant and fanciful analogy which there is between the event typified and the real event made use of for typification. Qu?- how is this analogy established? Ex.gr. between high in rank and high in place? Suppose it actually established, the one idea brings to view the other on the principle of association: but what brought it about at first? Fibres of of[?] the brain affected the same way?