CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER VI. Of Propositions merely Verbal. 



PAGE 

 1. Essential and Accidental propositions . . .145 



2. All essential propositions are identical propositions . 147 



3. Individuals have no essences . . . .153 



4. Real propositions, how distinguished from verbal . 155 



5. Two modes of representing the import of a Real proposition 157 



CHAPTER VII. Of the Nature of Classification, and the 

 Five Predicables. 



1. Classification, how connected with Naming . . 159 



2. The Predicables, what V . . . .161 



3. Genus and Species . . '. . . 162 



4. Kinds have a real existence in nature . . . 165 



5. Differentia . . . ' . . .171 



6. Differentiae for general purposes, and differentiae for special 



or technical purposes . . . . . 174 



7. Proprium . . . . . .178 



8. Accidens 180 



CHAPTER VIII. Of Definition. 



1. Definition, why treated of in this place V '. . 182 



2. A definition, what . . . . . ib. 



3. Every name can be defined, whose meaning is susceptible 



of analysis . . . . . .184 



4. Complete, how distinguished from incomplete definitions . 187 



5. and from descriptions ..... 189 



6. What are called definitionsof Things, are definitions of Names 



with an implied assumption of the existence of Things 

 corresponding to them . . ... . 194 



7. even when such things do not in reality exist . . 202 



8. Definitions!, though of names only, must be grounded on 



knowledge of the corresponding Things . . 204 



