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CHAPTER V
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E.O.correspond with those similarly symbolised in the usual list, merely designating in the predicates the quantity which was formerly treated as implicit.
Sec.4.As to Relation, propositions are either Categorical or Conditional.
A Categorical Proposition is one in which the predicate is directly affirmed or denied of the subject without any limitation of time, place, or circumstance, extraneous to the subject, as _All men in England are secure of justice_; in which proposition, though there is a limitation of place ('in England'), it is included in the subject.

Of this kind are nearly all the examples that have yet been given, according to the form _S is P_.
A Conditional Proposition is so called because the predication is made under some limitation or condition not included in the subject, as _If a man live in England, he is secure of justice_.

Here the limitation 'living in England' is put into a conditional sentence extraneous to the subject, 'he,' representing any man.
Conditional propositions, again, are of two kinds--Hypothetical and Disjunctive.

Hypothetical propositions are those that are limited by an explicit conditional sentence, as above, or thus: _If Joe Smith was a prophet, his followers have been unjustly persecuted_.

Or in symbols thus: If A is, B is; If A is B, A is C; If A is B, C is D.
Disjunctive propositions are those in which the condition under which predication is made is not explicit but only implied under the disguise of an alternative proposition, as _Joe Smith was either a prophet or an impostor_.


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