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23 April 1815 SS.2
Chrest Tab. II. Conclusion 23 30
2. Abbreviated sign
2. Special sign employing

System represent the words but more quickly

Abbreviation marks abridge writing: more advantage thus gained than by do reading

(a) General sign employment maximizing, or Verbal expression
occasionally descending principle.

(-) 12 Principle iv Special sign employment and abbreviation, maximize 1
Special and abbreviative
sign employing
Special in contending
to ordinary, viz.
language - characters

maximizing principle maximizing thereby diagrammatic expression employing discarding principle. or

Of illu the signs Special in here on this occasion put in contradistinction
to general or ordinary: the ordinary signs
in question were those of which the written ordinary stock of
is composed 2
Abbreviation is condensate:
for in this
way is all the advantage
produced vehicles

To the head of Abbreviation or say condensation,will, it is believed be found referable as the casescases severe
awful purpose, to which every such ordinary sign
can be applied with any advantage be applied
all the whatsoever useful effect is producible by 3
Ordinary language
including all signs
employed as vehicles
of ideas, in so far as
extraordinary signs produce
the effect, it is only
at least for a long time through the medium
of extraordinary uses: i.e.
the extraordinary visible
sign produces the
ordinary do:that
the ordinary audible
sign

this means.

Ordinary language is the sort of vehicle and
the only sort of vehicle which is in the possession of
the employment of conveying ideas of the mind
In so far as any other sign or set of signs shares
in this employment or production of that same effect Of parts the exception
of the sort of
signs
of graphical
other signs
by which expression
Objects to
of
which represent
objects, but by arbitrary
convention
but by means of
natural similitude

in so much far as this function is performed by
any other set of again by any special set of signs
it is only through the medium of the those ordinary signs:
by all these ordinary signs not the ideas themselves Perhaps in lieu
the extraordinary sign
may the
audible directly
without presenting
the ordinary visible
one in

which they are employed to deserts are the
objects which immediately presented to the mind
by any such special signs


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Identifier: | JB/018/056/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.

Date_1

1815-04-23

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-3

Box

018

Main Headings

chrestomathia

Folio number

056

Info in main headings field

chrest. tab. ii conclusion

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d23 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

6465

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