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To correspond with this alteration in the form of 

 the syllogisms, the axioms on which the syllogistic 

 process is founded must undergo a corresponding 

 transformation. In this altered phraseology, both 

 those axioms may be brought under one general 

 expression ; namely, that whatever possesses any 

 mark, possesses that which it is a mark of. Or, 

 when the minor premiss as well as the major is 

 universal, we may state it thus : whatever is a mark 

 of any mark, is a mark of that which this last is a 

 mark of. To trace the identity of these axioms with 

 those previously laid down, may be safely left to the 

 intelligent reader. We shall find, as we proceed, the 

 great convenience of the phraseology into which we 

 have last thrown them, and which is better adapted 

 than any I am acquainted with, to express with pre- 

 cision and force what is aimed at, and actually 

 accomplished, in every case of the ascertainment of a 

 truth by ratiocination. 



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