WHAT IS, IS; i.e.what hath existence, hath existence; or, who hath a soul, hath a soul.

What is this more than trifling with words?
It is but like a monkey shifting his oyster from one hand to the other: and had he but words, might no doubt have said, 'Oyster in right hand is subject, and oyster in left hand is predicate:' and so might have made a self-evident proposition of oyster, i.e.oyster is oyster; and yet, with all this, not have been one whit the wiser or more knowing: and that way of handling the matter would much at one have satisfied the monkey's hunger, or a man's understanding, and they would have improved in knowledge and bulk together.
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Secondly, Propositions in which apart of any complex Idea is predicated of the Whole.
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Another sort of trifling propositions is, WHEN A PART OF THE COMPLEXIDEA IS PREDICATED OF THE NAME OF THE WHOLE; a part of the definition of the word defined.

Such are all propositions wherein the genus is predicated of the species, or more comprehensive of less comprehensive terms.