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inextricably involved therein ; and to this even the peculiar 

 and simple relations just adverted to are not exceptions. 

 Those peculiar relations, however, are so important, and, even 

 if they might in strictness be classed among states of con- 

 sciousness, are so fundamentally distinct from any other of 

 those states, that it would be a vain subtlety to bring them 

 under that common description, and it is necessary that they 

 should be classed apart. 



As the result, therefore, of our analysis, we obtain the fol- 

 lowing as an enumeration and classification of all Nameable 

 Things : 



Jst. Feelings, or States of Consciousness. 



2nd. The Minds which experience those feelings. 



3rd. The Bodies, or external objects, which excite certain 

 of those feelings, together with the powers or properties 

 whereby they excite them; these last being included rather in 

 compliance with common opinion, and because their existence 

 is taken for granted in the common language from which I 

 cannot prudently deviate, than because the recognition of such 

 powers or properties as real existences appears to be warranted 

 by a sound philosophy. 



4th, and last. The Successions and Co-existences, the 

 Likenesses and Unlikenesses, between feelings or states of 

 consciousness. Those relations, when considered as sub- 

 sisting between other things, exist in reality only between the 

 states of consciousness which those things, if bodies, excite, 

 if minds, either excite or experience. 



This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a sub- 

 stitute for the abortive Classification of Existences, termed 

 the Categories of Aristotle. The practical application of it 

 will appear when we commence the inquiry into the Import of 

 Propositions ; in other words, when we inquire what it is 

 which the mind actually believes, when it gives what is called 

 its assent to a proposition. 



These four classes comprising, if the classification be cor- 

 rect, all Nameable Things, these or some of them must of 

 course compose the signification of all names ; and of these, 

 or some of them, is made up whatever we call a fact. 



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