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of [Saturn?], the pillow that smothered Desdemona, and Julius
Ceaesars crossing of the Rubicon has some character
commen and peculiar to the members, as De Morgan very
simply showed, Vant had stated it as regulative proposition,
but itis a constitutive principle.

A collection is an object whose mode of existence is
that of an indefinate object, that is one not in all
respects subject to the principle of contradiction
whose existence consists in the existence of certain objects,
its members, which are such that the existence of
more of them consists the existence of the collection.
A hyperstatical abstract is an object whose being
consists in the possibility of the predicate and which stands
in a peculiar relation, that of being possessed by, to whatever
few may be of what that predicate is [unclear]

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