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1 May Servanda

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2o & 3o

Chrest. Tab.II Post

S.4. found great use in inventing them, quere
whether any would be found in the subsequent use by others

Visible sign Employing
for

(4) VisibleSpecial abbreviation sign employment maximising principle

The principle here in question consists in employing in time of
or in addition to, then the ordinary collections of signs or elucidation of which worth
or printed discourse is composed, then a new collection of signs contrived on purpose

Applied to mathematics , the principle the use derivable 5
Visible sign employment
maximizing
principle. it consists
in employing in
—
from the principle will, is be found it is believed, appli
— referable to one or other of two hands:viz. adding to the increasing promptitude
of conception, [+] and adding toincreasing the quantity of matter [+] in respect of the ideas
in question taken singly,
and increasing the
number of them
capable of being pursued
brought under within
the cognizancethe reach or grasp of
the eye at the same
time
capable of being included under one view. and thence
effectually presented to the mind within a given space of time

1. As to the this advantage first named of these uses advantages. what is certain is
that for a length of three time more or less considerable
it can not take place, or so much as begin to take place particular signs
with or instead
stead of the visible
signs of which ordinary
written or printed
discourse consists
Every new sign of this kind is part and parcel of a
new language: and of as new language can any
past or present be ever learnt without a proportionable
expence in the article of time. All this is so much cost less 6
Purposes to which it
is described
1, Giving promptitude
to the conception of
the ideas taken singly
When one the portion in question of the new language has
been learnt i.e. when thereof between the thingsobjects meant to
be assigned and the new sign and the thing or things
meant to be signified the association has been sufficiently
formed, then though effectand not till thenif there be a profit comes 2. Facilities comparison
and the
observation of
by analogues
by bringing
many under
one view
the profit.

[3 except by means of the abbreviation and concentration it can not facilitate
can use more than ordinary language of which it is the sign does.

In the instance of each such sign taken by itself of
then between the things signifieddesignated and the sign there be any
analogy, the closer the analogy, the analogy, the less will be the cost:
the more frequently the occasion occurrs for putting the 3
In Advantage
cost is certain and
precedent, viz. labour
and time expended in
establishing the new
association: profit
subsequent and
sign to use, the greater will be the profit.

Thence the taking the whole number of the sign together
the greater the number aggregate of the occasions in which they can be employed
being given, the profit will be the greater, the less the number of the signs.

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Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d25 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"servanda[?]" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	6467
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