Whately
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Amphibolous
An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., “The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.”
Commutable
The predicate and subject are not commutable.
Conditional
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
Distribute
A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
Dive
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.
Equalize
No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
Expedience
Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
Expedient
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
Individual
An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual.
Instinct
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
Kidnap
You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them.
Misnomer
The word “synonym” is fact a misnomer.
Right
That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end.
Sentimental
A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.