9 Jan y 1816

Jug. True

Ch. Beginning

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Improbablizing circumstances of any deficiency in the list of individualizing circumstances reported.

By individualizing circumstances are here meant those circumstances in the indication of which the description of the indiviudal fact or matter of fact in question be it what it may it being of the class of real matter of fact is contained: that description by which it is distinguished from every other matter of fact.

In the instance of every matter of fact that has ever happened the nature of the case it will be seen can not but have afforded a really existing set of individualizing

circumstances.

These individualizing circumstances are

1. Circumstances designated by the word place.

2. Circumstances designated by the word time.

3.  Quaere as to circumstances belonging to the head of causality: relation in the field of causality of the fact in question to other facts anterior, posterior, or cotemporaneous: relation, direct, or collateral.

 Proceed to the paper containg Aphorism respecting individualizing

circumstances.

 This under the head of External criterions of verity commenc with the distinction between percipient and narrating witnesses.

4.

1. Individualizing circumstances, [...?] by which the individual objects of which the existence is affirmed are distingusihed from all others: (objects, i.e. persons and things)

5.

Every real matter of fact must have had its individualzing circumstances.

6.

Individualizing circumstances list of

1. Place

2. Time.

3. Causality?

(See Aphorisms as to individualizing circumstances)

 [...?] come under external criterion of verity, Witnesses percipient or narrating.