112 NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



it in an hypothetical proposition, is that of being in 

 inference from a certain other proposition. But this 

 s only one of many attributes that might be predi- 

 cated. We may say, That the whole is greater than 

 its part, is au axiom in mathematics : That the Holy 

 Ghost proceeds from the Father alone, is a tenet of 

 the Greek Church : The doctrine of the divine right 

 of kings was renounced by Parliament at the Revolu- 

 tion : The infallibility of the Pope has no countenance 

 from Scripture. In all these cases the subject of the 

 predication is an entire proposition. That which these 

 different predicates are affirmed of, is the proposition, 

 " the whole is greater than its part ;" the proposition, 

 11 the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father alone ;" 

 the proposition, " kings have a divine right;" the 

 proposition, (( the Pope is infallible." 



Seeing, then, that there is much Jess difference 

 between hypothetical propositions and any others, 

 than one might be led to imagine from their form, 

 we should be at a loss to account for the conspicuous 

 position which they have been selected to fill in 

 treatises on Logic, if we did not remember that what 

 they predicate of a proposition, namely, its being an 

 inference from something else, is precisely that one of 

 its attributes with which most of all a logician is 

 concerned. 



4. The next of the common divisions of Propo- 

 sitions is into Universal, Particular, Indefinite, and 

 Singular: a distinction founded upon the degree of 

 generality in which the name, which is the subject of 

 the proposition, is to be understood. The following 

 are examples : 



