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1908 Dec 1
Logic
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single objects observed. Here we cannot expect to find much
analogy between the classes of Hyloscepsy and those of
Noescepsy. In Hyloscepsy there are recognized by physicists two
enduring sorts of things, matter and vortices; but the latter are, for
the present of no importance. Matter, so far as the physicists recog-
nize it, is of two main kinds only, ordinary matter in atoms, and
electrons, which are also contained in the atoms, and as some imagine
compose the whole atom. The atoms are probably about 600
kinds; but only 82 kinds, including coronium, are believed
to be knwon. Coronium is apparently not capable of being
held down by the earth's gravity; and there are likely to be 500
other species of which this is true. A number of other kinds of atoms
have been announced by reputable chemists, but their distinct existence is not established