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Exposition by representation
A generic idea being
once formed the
meaning of words indicative
of specific
differences may be
deduced from it.
A great bank
a yellow flower
As yet we have but
substantives and
adjectives and without
verbs no discourse
can be held, no farther
exposition given
and consequently no
clear ideas communicated.</p>
Taking verbs expressive
of operations, as the
most simple it will
be necessary to repeat
the operation within
reach of the senses
of the learner a
number of times more
or less considerable
according to his intellect
before we
co can have any
security of his attaching
to the word the
idea which we wish
to convey.
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Etymologative
By etymologation I
do not mean to
indicate the investigation
of the changes
which a word has undergone
in course of
time but the
Exposition of inflected
words and conjugates
by the exhibition of
the root from which
they are derived.
Paraphrasis
Exposition by paraphrasis
of the name
of a fictitious entity
is the combining
the word in question
so as to make
up a compleat
proposition and then
translating that
proposition into
an equivalent one
composed of real
inferential or physical
fictitious entities.
Equivalence is to
sentences what synonymagation
is to
words.
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The L'ensemble des
operations
est ce que
appele la
The idea of non-existence
is the
idea of absence
extended.
Necessity Impossibility
Certainty Uncertainty
probability
whatsoever there is
of the reality correspondent
to any of
these words is
nothing more than
the disposition
the persuasion of
the mind on the
part of him by who
these words are
employed in relation
to the state of
things on the
or events to which
these qualities are
ascribed.
Relation: form:
Language.
1 Adequate where
for each object
a word: deficient
where two or more
words are to be
inferred from the
content redundant
where for any of
those objects
words more than
one are employed.
A quality is
Every word to be
intelligible must
be represented as part
or an assertion
or proposition.
Every assertion sentence
is either an assertion
or a combination of
assertions.
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