PROPOSITIONS. 95 



This phraseology, which is of great service in stating and 

 demonstrating the rules of the syllogism, enables us to express 

 very concisely the definitions of an universal and a particular 

 proposition. An universal proposition is that of which the 

 suhject is distributed ; a particular proposition is that of which 

 the subject is undistributed. 



There are many more distinctions among propositions than 

 those we have here stated, some of them of considerable im 

 portance. But, for explaining and illustrating these, more 

 suitable opportunities will occur in the sequel. 



