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Logic

CHAPTER VIII
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Secondly, there is the case in which the 'Some things' of which a predication is made are, in fact, not all; whilst the predicate, though not given as distributed, yet might be so given if we wished to state the whole truth; as if we say _Some men are Chinese_.
This case is also represented by Fig.

1, the outside circle representing 'Men,' and the inside one 'Chinese.' Thirdly, the predicate may appertain to some only of the subject, but to a great many other things, as in _Some horned beasts are domestic_; for it is true that some are not, and that certain other kinds of animals are, domestic.

This case, therefore, must be illustrated by overlapping circles, thus: [Illustration: FIG.

3.] The Universal Negative is sufficiently represented by a single Fig.

(4): two circles mutually exclusive, thus: [Illustration: FIG.


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