Chapter II. Of Abstraction, or the Formation of Conceptions.

§ 1. The comparison which is a preliminary to induction implies general conceptions 193 2. —but these need not be pre-existent 194 3. A general conception, originally the result of a comparison, becomes itself the type of comparison 198 4. What is meant by appropriate conceptions 200 5. —and by clear conceptions 203 6. Further illustration of the subject 205