Note 208 — Chapter VII

Professor Veitch remarks that in ω “we assert parts, and that these can be divided, or that there are parts and parts. If we deny this statement, we assert that the thing spoken of is indivisible or a unity…… We may say that there are men and men. We say, as we do every day, there are politicians and politicians, there are ecclesiastics and ecclesiastics, there are sermons and sermons. These are but covert forms of the some are not some…… ‘Some vivisection is not some vivisection’ is true and important; for the one may be with an anaesthetic, the other without it” (Institutes of Logic, pp. 320, 1). It will be observed that the proposition There are politicians and politicians is here given as a typical example of ω. The appropriateness of this is denied by Mr Monck. “Again, can it be said that the proposition There are patriots and patriots is adequately rendered by Some patriots are not some patriots? The latter proposition simply asserts non-identity: the former is intended to imply also a certain degree of dissimilarity [i.e., in the characteristics or consequences of the patriotism of different individuals]. But two non-identical objects may be perfectly alike” (Introduction to Logic, p. xiv).