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THE CATEGORIES.
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as both "man" and "animal."[1] 3. In predication the name and definition of the subject must be predicated. But it is evident from what has been said, that of those things which are predicated of a subject, both the name and the definition must be predicated of the subject, as "man" is predicated of "some certain man," as of a subject, and the name, at least, is predicated, for you will predicate "man" of "some certain man," and the
- ↑ For the method of predication, vide Huyshe, Aldrich, or Whately. Also compare the Topics iv. 2, Isagoge 2, Aquinas Opusc. 48, cap. 2. Genus and species are said "prædicari in quid," i. e. are expressed by a substantive; Property and Accident "in quale," or by an adjective. This whole chapter, brings forcibly to the mind, Butler's satirical burlesque of Hudibrastic acumen, in discovering
"Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies fly!"Hudibras, Part i. Can. 1.
Though very necessary, the initiative processes of Logic, indeed present
"A kind of Babylonish dialect,
Which learned pedants much affect."
