An outline of the necessary laws of thought; a treatise on pure and applied logic . iduals. 9. The conception ofan objecT: confifts of the aggregate of its marks,with the notion of exiftence fuperadded. 10. Sin- 140 LAWS OF THOUGHT. gular obje£ts are invariably referred to and viewedthrough general conceptions, n. A conception iscomplete and adequate, when it can be refolved atpleafure into its implied marks by definition, andinto its contained fpecies by divifion. 12. Twomarks which ftand to each other as pofitive and pri-vative, like wife and unwife^ are called contradictory,becaufe it would
An outline of the necessary laws of thought; a treatise on pure and applied logic . iduals. 9. The conception ofan objecT: confifts of the aggregate of its marks,with the notion of exiftence fuperadded. 10. Sin- 140 LAWS OF THOUGHT. gular obje£ts are invariably referred to and viewedthrough general conceptions, n. A conception iscomplete and adequate, when it can be refolved atpleafure into its implied marks by definition, andinto its contained fpecies by divifion. 12. Twomarks which ftand to each other as pofitive and pri-vative, like wife and unwife^ are called contradictory,becaufe it would be a contradiction in terms to aflignthem at the fame time to the fame objeft. Twomarks are called contrary, when it is known a pos-teriori by experience, and not a priori by the veryform of expreffion, that they cannot belong to thefame object, as wife and wicked^ warm and frozen. OUTLINE OF THE LAWSOF THOUGHT. PART OvoEfxiciv yaq ours ouTcog our ifceivojg 7rpci%iv oufiaTrpatilav dnXoT ra (puvnQevra, irpiv av rig ToTg ovo^ocaito, pyjfjLara Kipjy\. JUDGMENT. § 67. jfudgment Defined. VERY aft of judgment is an at-tempt to reduce to unity two cogni-tions. When one decides that So-crates is wife/ it is that hereafter onemay, by combining the two notions, think of thewife Socrates. Again, when one decides that theworld is not eternal, it is that hereafter one may re-frain from combining the two notions as the eter-nal world. A Judgment then is an expreflion that two no-tions can or cannot be reconciled—that the marksof the one may or may not be henceforward affignedto the other.* A propofition is the expreflion of ajudgment in words. * This definition is rejected by Mr. Mill, Logic, vol. 116, feq. on the ground that a judgment exprefles theagreement of things rather than of notions. But the notionsare controlled by the things, otherwife affent and diffent wouldbe arbitrary. I am forced to fay the day is fine when theiky is cloudlefs, becaufe my percep
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