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The President shook his head, and referred the question to his Highness. "It seems immaterial," observed the Duke. "If a man marries, a woman marries." "Ex vi terminorum," assented the Doctor. "But, sir," said the President, "there are more women than men in the Duchy." Duke Deodonato threw down his pen. "This is very provoking," said he. "Why was it allowed?
His compositions differ only terminorum positione from dreams; nothing but rude heaps of immaterial, incoherent, drossy, rubbishy stuff, promiscuously thrust up together; enough to infuse dulness and barrenness in conceit into him that is so prodigal of his ears as to give the hearing; enough to make a man's memory ache with suffering such dirty stuff cast into it.
Did the word "man" as used in the decree, include "woman"? The President shook his head, and referred the question to his Highness. "It seems immaterial," observed the Duke. "If a man marries, a woman marries." "Ex vi terminorum," assented the Doctor. "But, sir," said the President, "there are more women than men in the Duchy." Duke Deodonato threw down his pen. "This is very provoking," said he.
The rational psychology of the Wolffian school is guilty of this error, and whatever of proof it advances for the substantiality, simplicity, and personality of the soul, and, by way of deduction, for its immateriality and immortality as well as for its relation to the body, is based upon this substitution, this ambiguity of the middle term, and therefore upon a quaternio terminorum, all its conclusions are fallacious.
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