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1908 Nov 12
Logic
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The other alternative means to the same end is that the assertion
should contain or be accompanied with directions for gaining experiences
of each object to which it relates, or an equivalent to such directions.
Each of those single objects I call a 'Subject' of the assertion
and a set of them I call a 'Collective Subject' of the assertion, and
the whole of them, of which I shall have more to say, I call the 'Entire
Collective Subject' of the assertion. My use of the word Subject,
thus differs from that of the grammarians in two respects;
first in that they apply it to a noun and I to the thing
which the noun denotes, and secondly, in that they restrict the
term 'Subject' to the Subject Nominative, which I extend it to that
which is denoted by the direct object, and to that which is denoted by
the indirect object, and to everything else with which one must be already