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1908 Oct 28
Logic
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tion possible. The speaker could now not venture upon a single
positive predicate without laying himself open to refutation. For it is
untrue that "Whatever you please is black," and equally so that "Whatever
you please is white;" and so on through all positive predicates. It is the
predicate of a proper an assertion about "whatever you please" of any
kind that is said to be general. The subject is said to be referred to per se,
or necessarily. To say, "Whatever man you please to imagine" is a biped,
is what we mean by saying "Man is per se a biped," or "Man is
by logical necessity a biped." Now imag conceive of a that subject wh
Now that of which every predicate is necessary not in description by in being is the definition
of God as ens necessarium.
Thus, every nameable is one of three things; either Nothing, or
ens necessarium, or a thing such that of every pair of mutually contradictory