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  • Attribute which we saw (chap.i. § 5) to be the central type of relations of coinherence; and on this model other predications may be formed in which the subject is not a substance, but is treated as if it were, and could therefore be the ground of attributes; as _Fame is treacherous, The weather is changeable_.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • The relations of likeness and of coinherence are the ground of

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Classification; for it is by resemblance of coinhering attributes that things form classes: coinherence is the ground of judgments concerning

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • (coinherence) and sometimes extensible to causation (because a cause implies a class of events), should never be stretched to include other relations in such a way as to sacrifice intelligence to formalism.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

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