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undistributed. In the following, No men are perfect, 

 both the predicate and subject are distributed. Not 

 only is the attribute perfection denied of the entire 

 class Man, but that class is severed and cast out from 

 the whole of the class Perfect, and not merely from 

 some part of that class. 



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 uni- 

 versal 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 pro- 

 positions than those we have here stated, some of 

 them of considerable importance. But, for explaining 

 and illustrating these, more suitable opportunities will 

 occur in the sequel. 



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