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1831 Aug. 6
Nomography
Conversion of Propositions
Conversion of proposition - gramatici, rhetorici et
nomographici - analagous to do logici then Sanderson
Feci simplicity: loci per acci
Cati per centra: see fit conversio tota
Make for Conversi: viz. from the form in which the
proposition or section originally presented itself
Make fit this conversion - giving to the proprietor
&c this or that one of the properties deniable in language
For these properties see the Logic packet
Note the cases - 1. where the conversion is the
net profit; 2. where our property as not obtained or improved
but at the expence of another or other
Give names to the several form (other than logical) of which a proposition
is susceptible
Example of conversion: example, by which
the other to which expression is given in on this page was
suggested
No 1. "If I hated justice as much as an English
"Judge does': Form which this (what by the bye
is but the first half of an hypothetical proposition Logic)
presents itself to me as capable of being rated with
advantage, . -No 2 If Justice were as odious to me
"as to an English Judge". Call No 1. the ac h forms
the verb employed being in this case in the active voice
Call No 2 the passive form. Here ha there is no
verb but the subsptantive verb: but of them were a verb.
it would be in the passive voice
Apply See how far this topic of the different forms of propertiesis is applicable with advantage
into Nomography
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