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Since the object of pure scientific knowledge cannot be other than
it is, the truth obtained by demonstrative knowledge will be
necessary. |
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Extending this classification to all other attributes, I
distinguish
those that answer the above description as belonging essentially to
their respective subjects; |
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Further (a) that is essential which is not predicated of a subject
other than itself: |
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In another sense again (b) a thing consequentially connected with
anything is essential; |
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So far then as concerns the sphere of connexions scientifically
known in the unqualified sense of that term, all attributes which
(within that sphere) are essential either in the sense that their
subjects are contained in them, or in the sense that they are
contained in their subjects, are necessary as well as
consequentially connected with their subjects. |
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Thus, then, we have established the distinction between the
attribute which is 'true in every instance' and the 'essential'
attribute. |
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I term 'commensurately universal' an attribute which belongs to
every instance of its subject, and to every instance essentially and
as such; |
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An attribute belongs commensurately and universally to a subject
when it can be shown to belong to any random instance of that
subject and when the subject is the first thing to which it can be
shown to belong. |
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