Note 66 — Chapter IV

This is at the root of Sigwart’s final difficulty with regard to negative names, as indicated in the preceding section. Later on he points out that in division we are justified in including negative characteristics of the form not-A in a concept, although we cannot regard not-A itself as an independent concept. Thus we may divide the concept organic being into feeling and not-feeling, a specific difference being here constituted by the absence of a characteristic which is compatible with the remaining characteristics, but is not necessarily connected with them (Logic, I. p. 278). Compare also Lotze, Logic, § 40.