CHAPTER VI. 



DISCRIMINATION OF THE POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE ; 

 THE CHAOTIC AND THE OEDEELY ; THE HOMOGENEOUS 

 AND THE HETEEOGENEOUS, WITH OTHEE FUNDAMENTAL 

 ONTOLOGICAL DIFFEEENCES ; AND OF THE COEEESPOND- 

 ING LINGUAL AND ALPHABETICAL CLASSIFICATIONS. 



121. Although Nature Science and Art have been 

 presented and hitherto insisted upon as the leading 

 distribution, practically, of the whole Universe of Af- 

 fairs, still there are other distributions which are in 

 a sense more primitive, and to which we must now 

 give a portion of our attention. Metaphysically, the 

 Fundamental distribution of the Universe of Concep- 

 tion is into, 1. SOMETHING or REALITY, 2. NOTHING or 

 Non-Reality, or Negation, and 3. LIMITATION, which 

 last is properly Articulation, or the Hinging Line, or 

 the Joint, between the Something and the Nothing. 

 Kant's Three Categories of Quality or of the Quali- 

 tative Constituency of Being are, accordingly, 1. 

 Rwlity, 2. Negation, and 3. Lint if of ion. 



122. In the corresponding Qualitative Constituency 

 of that Special Universe called Language (which we 

 are now treating as the epitome of the Great Uni- 



