1009 LOGIC: OR, TIDE R1Grrr Iws Or RCASOR. sometimes, It includes no more than merely each species or kind; as when the Evangelist says, Christ healed every disease, or every.ilisease-wasrhealed lny'Christ ,; that is, :every hind of dis- ease. The first of :these, sLuogicians ,call the distribution of an =imam' in;singulagenerune : the last is a distribution in genera ai gulorunr. ,But either of them joined to the subject render. proposition universal. Note :4. The universality of a subjecdis often restrained dtg a part of the predicate ; as when we say, all nicelearn wisdom by.experience : the.uuiversal subject, all men, is limited to sig. atfy orïly, all those men who learn wisdom. The scripture also uses this sort.of language, whenitspeaks of all men being ,justi- fied..hyIhe,righteousness of one :. Rom . N. 18.thatis, all men who ár.e'justi&ed obtained it in this. way. Observe here, That not only.a metaphysical : or, natural,- but a +moral-universality also is oftentimes to be restrrainedhy,a part of the predicate ; as when we say, all the;Dntch;arre.goad sea- men : all the Italians .are subtile politicians ; that is, those among the 'Dutch that are. seamen are good seamen ; and those among the Italians who are poi are subtile politicians, that is,rtle y are:genernlly. so. Note.5. The universality of aterm is many times restrained by the particular time, place, circumstance, &c. or the design of tlieosspealcer ; as if me mere in the city ofLondon,:and say, all the weavers anent to present their petition ; .we;mean only all the weavers who dwell.iu the city. So when it is said in the gospel, rill men did.marvel; Mark v. 20. it reaches only to -all those men siho heard .of the miracles of our Saviour. Here also it should be observed, that a moral universality is restrained 'by time, place, and other circumstances, as. well as a natural; sothat by these means the, word all sometimes docs.not extend to adenth part of thoseavlto at ,first _,might seem to be in- elluded in that word. One occasionof these difficulties, and ambiguities. that belong toanaiversal propositions, is the common humour and temper of mankind, who_ generally. have an inclination to magnify their ideas, and to talk roundly and universally concerning any thing they,speak of ; which has introduced universal terms. of speech intorcnstom and 'habit, in all nations, and, all languages, mors titan nature or reason could dictate ; yet n hen this custom is ',reduced, .it,is ant.atall improper to use this sort of language in Solemn and.saared- writings,_as well as.iu familiar discourse. II. Remarks concerning indefinite propositions. Note 1. Propositions carrying :in them universal forms of ex- 1ression, may- sometimes :drop the tote of universality, and be. 'cane indefinite, and yet retain the same universal.sesse, whether metaphysical, natural, or moral ; -whether collective or tlistti- ssutive.
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