This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...which did not proceed from a reason, would not be the consequent of anything. An hypothetical proposition must, therefore, contain a reason and its consequent, and it thus presents the appearance of two members or clauses. The first clause, --that which contains the reason, --is called the Lect. A ntecedent, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...which did not proceed from a reason, would not be the consequent of anything. An hypothetical proposition must, therefore, contain a reason and its consequent, and it thus presents the appearance of two members or clauses. The first clause, --that which contains the reason, --is called the Lect. A ntecedent, also the Reason, the Condition, or the HuXiii.....--pothesis, (hypothesis, conditio, ratio, antecedens, --i. e. membrum sive propositio); the second, which contains the consequent necessitated by this ground, is called the Consequent, also the Thesis, (consequens, thesis, rationatum, conditionatum). The relation between the two clauses is called the Consequence, (consequentia), and is expressed by the particles if on the one hand, and then, so, therefore, &c., on the other, which are, therefore, called the Consecutive particles (particulce consecutive).a These are frequently, however, not formally expressed. A hpothe-"This consequence (if is--then is) is the copula in mcnt not hypothetical propositions; for through it the concepts composite. brought together, so as to make up, in consciousness, but a single act of thought; consequently, in it lies that synthesis, that connection, which constitutes the hypothetical judgment. Although, therefore, an hypothetical judgment appear double, and may be cut into two different judgments, it is nevertheless not a composite judgment. For it is realised through a simple act of thought, in which if and then, the antecedent and the consequent, are thought at once and as inseparable. The proposition, if B is, then A is, is tantamount to the proposition, A is through B. But this is as simple an act as if we categorically judged B is A, that is, B is under A. Of these two, neither the one, --If the sun...
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