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Language
grammatical conjugates
verbs and
substantives: they
are aggregates
wh as logical conjugates
are aggregates
of aggregates
able: any
modification applied
to any one root
I am for applying
to all roots
great advantage
of English language
that substantive
may be made
to perform the
office of adjectives
as handkerchief
handbarrow.
This cannot be
done in French.
I have gone a
great way in giving
the genealogy of all
the fictitious entities
belonging to property
but it is as
Herculean labour.
Food
To some no objects but
individual objects present
themselves. The names
first in use accordingly
must have been
common names proper names.
The From the insertion
of common proper names
to the mention of
common names the
step is as wide.
the discourse
In all discourse there are
certain imperfections:
1. Superfluity by irrelevancy.
2. Superfluity by repetition
in terminus.
3. Superfluity by verbal
repetition
4 Verbosity
5 Scantiness
6.
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6 Inconsistency
including self
contradictatory
propositions.
7 Ambiguity
8 Obscurity
9 Confusedness
10 Desultoriness
Many are the
instances in which
no observations
are worthless for
instruction
but excellent
as mementos.
The distinction
between repetition
in impart and
repetitive in heresy
may be found
found useful.
Applied to individuals
alone, nomenclature
is but nomenclature
– to aggregates
nomenclature is
classification.
Classification involving
assertion: assertion
of the agreement
as having place
among all the
individuals to which
the denomination
applies.
I always state an
exception in the
first instance
that the reader
may not receive
an impression
in the first instance
which they have
afterwards to
correct.
Exceptions excepted
forbear – to put
sentences more
than one into the
same article
– propositions
more than one into
the same sentence.
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Propositions more
than one are
capable of having
place in the same
sentence when
1 To one verb
there are substances
more than one
with expressions of
agency
2. To one verb
substances more
than one with
expressions of
passiveness.
Beautiful exemplifications
of the manner in which
sentences and or
propositions are
broken down to
elementary or say
atomic propositions
Compas Digest.
Properties desirable
1. in discourse in
general
1 Clearness ie absence of
1 obsurity
or 2 Ambiguity
3 Undefinedness or indistinctness
& repeatedness.
2. Correctness
3 Copiousness Completeness with
referrence to the
purpose on each
occasion
4 Consistency: ie
absence of inconsistency
with referrence
1 The elementary
parts of the proposition
itself
2. Other propositions
in the same discourse.
3. Other propositions
in other discourses of
the same person.
5. Conciseness in the
case of each proposition
taken by itself.
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6 Compactness in
the case of a number
of propositions relative
to the same subject.
7 Impressiveness
8 Melodiousness
9. Instructiveness
by means of
accessory ideas.
10 Agreableness by
means of accessory
ideas.
An instance of the
importance of
compressedness in
language is
afforded by the
afforded in English
so legislation by
the riot act.
Dignity of Style.
By dignity I mean
that character of
style which is the
result of its being
such as to convey
to the speaker hearer or
writer reader the idea of
self possession on
the part of
the speaker or
writer: the idea
of his having acquired
a mastery over the
subject w he
has taken in hand,
or at least of his having
settled and arranged
and settled his thoughts
concerning it.
The signs of strength
of mind (in a writer
are exhibited as his
writings are clear
of certain marks
which may be
considered assumptions
of weakness.
1st Laxity; 2
Fumbling.
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