In the form of the proportion, the copula is made as abftracl: as the terms: or is considered as obeying only thofe conditions which are neceflary to inference. Every name is treated in connection with its contrary or contradictory name; the diftinction between thefe words not being made, and others fupplied in confequence. Eight really feparable forms of predication are thus ob tained, between any two names :the eight of the common fyftem amounting only to fix, when, as throughout my work, the two forms of a convertible proportion are confidered as identical. The complex proportion is introduced, confirming in the coexiftence of two fimple ones. The theory of the fyllogifm of complex propofitions is made to precede that of the fimple or ordinary fyllogifm ;which laft is deduced from it. I have only ufed the word complex, was already appropriated (fee page 85).
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