19 Nov r. 1815

Chrestomathia or Language

Universal Grammar

Exhaustiveness whence

Grammar Sketch

{A part of Speech (the collection of these being understood as composed of the above list).

The[?] Parts of Speech.

A part of speech is either, 1. Aplonoctic, simple in its[?] import, or 2. syncrationoctic, composite in its import.

A part of speech, simple in their[?] import are[?] either - 1. significant by itself, or 2. Not significant by itself.

The only part of speech which is perfectly simple in its import and at the same time integrally significant of itself is the noun Substantive: the noun Substantive, not as it exists in Greek and Latin complicated with liberal modifications indicative of logical relations - such as Gender, and Case and number, but such as it exists in English: as in the words Man, Woman, Horse.}

A noun substantive, as in the Latin the word noun truly imports, is a name.

The entity of which it is the name belongs either to the class of real entities or to the class of fictitious entities.

{Incorporeal as well as corporeal substances being included,} real entities are those and those alone which belong to that universal class designated by the logicians by the name of substances.

Substances are divided by them into corporeal and incorporeal. Under the noun of incorporeal are included all masses of matter howsoever circumstanced in respect of form, bulk, and place.  In a note give the contents of the Porphyrian tree.

Corporeal substances the existence is made known to us by sense, they may on that account be termed perceptible: of corporeal no otherwise than by ratiocination: they may on that account be termed informative. To the class of inferential entities belong, 1. The soul of man in a state of separation from the body. 2. God. 3. All other and inferior spiritual entities.