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1831. May 25.
Posology.
ult
I. Alegomorphic
§ Mutual Relations
1.
Object of Alegomorphics
making
known the unknown
2.
Means, its relation
to something known.
Quantities
known — among those
of the
those which the
person in question
has had occasion
to take note of:
viz. to fingers of one
hand both
feet. Next to these
See Conjectural History
3.
Then came the higher
of the Numeration
Table — known
the of each
by its relation to
all those one after
another that have
gone before it, and
are less than it.
4.
Then came the compound
numbers rising
one above another
in the way of addition.
5.
Means of indication of
relations, indication of
equivalences.
6.
Means of indicating
equivalences aptly and
commonly abbreviation:
or say compression or
condensation.
7.
Short hand writing is
abbreviation, compression
condensation
without regular
chain of relation between
the elements:
8.
Of short hand the application
covers the
whole of the language:
arithmetic, algebra, no
more than concerns
quantity.
9.
Put now together the idea
designated by the words
abbreviation, shorthand,
synonym, equivalence,
indication of equivalence,
relative and real indication
of equivalences, and
of the whole of the
matter belonging to
alegomorphic posology —
of the whole matter
of it not a particle
is to be found which is
not the product of one
of more of the operations
respectively designated
by the words
or say terms.
☞ Medium of invention
— the Rationale.
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10.
In one part of it a
dark spot: any spot
to which transparency
is not given by one
or more of these
terms.
11.
Rent and torn asunder
is the whole veil of
mystery.
12.
This is the work of
Logic: of the application
of Logic to
Posology. To Logic
belongs what concerns
relations.
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