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The number of thoughts then being two, it is obvious that 
either might be a judgment, or it might be a mere conception. 
Of thoughts, however, to be considered, one at least must be a 
judgment; for otherwise expression would not be attempted. 14. 
The other might also be a judgment, the two having equal 
rank in expressional purpose. But in such case verbal hybrids 
noted, to which alone I invite especial attention, are, in actual 
practice, not developed. 
Illustrating this proposition by the statement “A wounded 
B” (the expression of a judgment), overlooking the radically 
different thought-memberships of subject and object, and giving 
each, as Grammar does, the rank of a noun, I note the follow¬ 
ing possibilities: 
(1) If A (or B) is at the same time, in the expression of 
another judgment, subject or object of another verb, A (or B) 
is merely twice a noun and not a hybrid. Accordingly, this 
case may be dismissed. 
(2) So also if “wounded,” while serving as a verb with “A” 
and “B,” serve also as a verb to another subect and object,, 
“wounded” is not a hybrid, but merely twice a verb. Accord¬ 
ingly, this case may also be dismissed. 
(3) But if “wounded,” while serving as a verb with “A” and 
“B,” should at the same time serve as either subject or object 
of some other verb, it is plain that “wounded” would be a 
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hybrid. 
(4) Also if A (or B), while serving as a noun with 
“wounded,” serve also—say with C and D—as a verb, 15 it is 
plain that A (or B) would be a hybrid. 
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1 1 * * 4 This statement should he taken as merely the postulation of an 
opinion elsewhere defended, that (outside of poetry, in which sugges¬ 
tion may have even greater force than declaration—see page 229) 
a total of thought for which the speaker does not vouch as at 
least supposedly known by him, would not be offered by the speaker 
and even less accepted by the hearer, the game of communica¬ 
tion in such a case not being worth the expressional candle. Thus 
the expressions “The sun to exceed the moon” and “The day after the 
fair” would not be regarded, individually or collectively, as linguist¬ 
ically adequate. I do not, however, forget that, as noted by Professor 
Paul, the linguistic expression of judgment elements may be incom¬ 
plete, their indication being left in part to “the situation.” 
is a (or B) is meant to stand for a subject (or object) of any sort* 
as for instance in “To incur disapprobation wounded B.” 
