Category Archives: Logic of Relatives

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §2. Relatives (concl.) 222.   Instead of considering the system of a relative as consisting of non-relative individuals, we may conceive of it as consisting of relative individuals.  Thus, since we have But … Continue reading →

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §2. Relatives (cont.) 221.   From the definition of a simple term given in the last section, it follows that every simple relative is the negative of an individual term.  But while in … Continue reading →

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §2. Relatives (cont.) 220.   Every relative, like every term of singular reference, is general;  its definition describes a system in general terms;  and, as general, it may be conceived either as a logical … Continue reading →

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §2. Relatives 218.   A relative is a term whose definition describes what sort of a system of objects that is whose first member (which is termed the relate) is denoted by the … Continue reading →

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives (cont.) §1. Individual and Simple Terms (concl.) 216.   Just as in mathematics we speak of infinitesimals and infinites, which are fictitious limits of continuous quantity, and every statement involving these expressions has its … Continue reading →

Chapter 3. The Logic of Relatives §1. Individual and Simple Terms 214.   Just as we had to begin the study of Logical Addition and Multiplication by considering and terms which might have been introduced under the Algebra of the … Continue reading →