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It is a misfortune one
cannot but lament upon
this occasion.
Our language unhappily wants the Subdisjunction Conjunc
-tion, I mean a conjunction which shall have the Subdisjunc-
tive expository or explanatorysense of no other: a conjunction to answer to the of the
Greeks, and the of the Latins — Our <gap> being both
Subdisjunctive & disjunctive one can never tell whether the
last of the two words which it couples be just in apposition
or in opposition to the first: a man cannot discover in the</lb> instance of two subjects the one of which he does not well
understand whether it denotes identity or diversity between
them.
+12.G.3.73
Thus when he reads in the Builders Act+ that "All the
Tunnels of certain Chimnies shall be "plaistered or par-
getted" in certain parts, If the word "pargetted" happens to
be new to him, (as doubtless it is to many)he it is be un
certain to him whether these two words denote one and the
same operation to be performed upon the subject or two dif-
ferent operations of which the Workman may take his
choice.
The remedy to this may be, to discharge this conjunction of
it's Subdisjunctive sense altogether of in the room of it to employ
the [i.e.][id.est.][that is] a mark which tho' taken from
or for the disjunctive
sense to put "either"
or "-or as well-
as.a foreign language that has been so long of so much used in our
as to have become tolerably familiar: & this by a note
in the margin referred to from the text the first time that
any word so explained occurs — Thus [plaistering] standing
+In Whether they are
the same?in the Text + a reference is made, the first time of it's occur-
ing, to the margin in which are inserted[i=e: pargetting]
& this being done once for all as well as if the word [plaistering]
being brought onoccurring 50 times over, the word [pargetting] were tacked
to it as often. in Brevity & Perspesuity The Test will
gain, & in CertaintyPrecisionFacility it will not suffer.
"Every" has the sense of "All," tho' all
may not always have the sense of "every." Both "all" & "every" are superfluous - for the ritual of substantive
in the plural extends to the whole species of which the substan-
tive in the singular is the genus, as affectually well as without the at-
tribute of universality as with it.
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compos. stat. singly - as a discourse. double sense of "all and every" "shall - may" |
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