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Ill. THE CLASSIFICATION OF DISCREPANCY. 
According to the principles active in the attendant circumstances, 
the 26 cases of discrepancy may be divided into five main classes or 
categories, as follows: 
I. Whole and Part, or Rule and Exception: Cases 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8. 
II. Reopened Transactions: Cases 4, 9, 10 and 11. 
IT. Coincident Transactions: Cases 1, 13 and 14. 
IV. Apparent Identity: Cases 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. 
V. Difference or Degree of Interest: Cases 21, 22, 23, and 24. 
The Mixed Cases: 2, 12, 25 and 26. 
In Case 2 the principles of Reopened Transactions and Difference 
of Interest are both active; in Case 12 those of Coincident Transactions 
and Reopened Transactions; in Case 25 those of Whole and Part or 
Rule and Exception and Difference of Interest, and in Case 26 those of 
Reopened Transactions and Apparent Identity. 
CATEGORY I.—Whole and Part, or Rule and Exception: 
Where reports concerning the same matter conflict because one report 
treats of the matter as a whole and the other with reference only to a con- 
tingent exception. 
Case 3.—One statement deals with the seating of the congregation 
as a whole, 1.e., with the general separation of the men from the women. 
The contrary statement deals with the exceptions to this general ar- 
rangement. 
Case. 5.—One statement deals with C’s place of dining on six days; 
i.e., on most days of the week; the contrary statement deals with his 
place of dining on Sunday, an exceptional day in C’s arrangement. 
Case 6.—B’s statement concerning his attendance upon C and D 
treats the transaction as a whole. By beginning and ending the walk 
with C, by carrying her valise in the interval, and by assisting her 
as well as D to the right car, he feels that he has been in attendance 
upon both ladies. The contrary statemnt of C deals with the excep- 
tional feature in this general process. 
Case 7.—B’s statement that she returned alone with another 
lady deals with the major part of the drive of six miles. The contrary 
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