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The inquiry, then, whether the property has been correctly
rendered or no, should be made by these means. |
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Firstly, then, for destructive purposes, take a look at
each subject
of which he has rendered the property, and see (e.g.) if it fails to
belong to any of them at all, or to be true of them in that
particular
respect, or to be a property of each of them in respect of that
character of which he has rendered the property: |
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Next, for destructive purposes, see if the description fails to
apply to that to which the name applies, and if the name fails to
apply to that to which the description applies: |
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Next, for destructive purposes, see if he has rendered a subject
as a property of that which is described as
'in the subject': |
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Next, for destructive purposes, see if he has rendered the
property as partaken of: |
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Next, for destructive purposes, see if the property cannot
possibly belong simultaneously, but must belong either as
posterior or
as prior to the attribute described in the name: |
| Paragraph 7 |
Next, for destructive purposes, see if the same thing fails to be
a property of things that are the same as the subject, so far as
they are the same: |
| Paragraph 8 |
Next, for destructive purposes, see if the property of things that
are the same in kind as the subject fails to be always the same in
kind as the alleged property: |
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Inasmuch as 'same' and 'different' are terms used in
several senses,
it is a job to render to a sophistical questioner a property that
belongs to one thing and that only. |
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