Note 57 — VII

Advanced grammarians treat this matter in a way which should be instructive to logicians. The hypothesis, says Sweet (§ 295 of A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical, Oxford, 1892), suggests an affirmation or negation "as objects of thought." "In fact, we often say supposing (that is, 'thinking') it is true, instead of if it is true." In a word, the hypothetical judgment as such puts explicitly before us the content of thought, of the predicate or hypothesis; and in so far is a moment in judgment rather than adequate judgment itself.