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 

 subject 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. 



