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it with a knife.
Undoubtedly, I may have good reason, nevertheless, to call it hard; because some actual fact has occurred such that Reason compells me to call it so, and a general idea of all the facts of the case can only be formed if I do call it so.
In this case, my calling it hard is an actual event which is governed by that law of hardness of the piece of carborundum.
But if there were no actual fact whatsoever which was meant by saying that the piece of carborundum was hard, there would be not the slightest meaning in the word hard as applied to it.
The very being of the general, of reason, consists in its governing individual events.
So, then, the