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the two terms of the proposition; of which the first may be stated thus:
"Every possible object of thought is to a certain extent identical with
every other"; and as the proposition implicitly states disagreement, the
second may be stated thus: "Every possible object of thought is to a
certain extent diverse from every other." The first gives the positive
(subjective) condition of the proposition, the second the negative
(objective) condition: both together constitute the conditions of
thinking. The proposition is thus the assertion of the same in the
different. The proposition also asserts, implicitly, the _tertium quid_,
or the basis of classification--the class-type, to which both terms are
referred--that is, the proposition secondarily asserts an analysis.
According to the first condition we have the inductive process;
according to the second we have the deductive process. A complete
movement of idea from its purely physical symbolization to its
metaphysical interpretation, must involve both these processes.

The mind possesses the power of analysis; it can watch its own
operations and retrace its steps, until it arrives at the original data
of consciousness; but analysis cannot comprise the whole of the logical
process. Before there can be analysis there must be something to be
analyzed; before steps can be retraced, they must be taken. We must not
confound a condition with a Law--the one is a conception antecedent to
all action, a genus to which the particular activity may be referred;
the other is coincident with action. The one is the medium of the other.
We may illustrate this idea by science itself, which is reached only by
an analysis of Art. Matter is the condition of the expression of an
idea; hence to all but the artist, Art must precede Science, but this
cannot be in the case of the artist; in his mind the Idea is first
conceived, and there it is given expression in the forms of Art. Here,
as uniformly in Nature, the whole absolutely precedes the part--the
universal exists before the particular--God before man. Truth absolute
thus exists before truth conditioned. Science before Art. Remove
conditions and the conditioned becomes the absolute; art and science
coincide. But truth which is assumed to be out of all relations, cannot
be comprehended by man, and practically is not. Even the universal
propositions of deduction express universality under conditions--that
is universality of relation; just as i