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Perhaps few of the readers of the COLLEGIAN
have not met with this most famous of logical
puzzles. Invented. by Diodorus Cronus, the Dia-
lectician, who flourished under Ptolemy Soter,
about 300 B" (3., for more than twenty~one centu—
ries it has battled the acutest insight to detect
wherein it is vicious. Each succeeding logiciau
seems to have done little mo1e than to expose the
inadequacy of the solutions p1opcsed by his pro-
decessors As an apolooy, then, fo1 the presen
tation of the following view of the sophism, the
1v1iterc can offer nothing sav 13 his suplemest confi—
dence that it 2's correct.

. Simply stated, the reasoning is as follows

If motion is possible, thebody must move either
where it is, or where it is not.

But it can not move where i‘; is,
can it move where it is not.

Therefore, motion is impossible

Diogenes is said to have replied to it by walk-
ing across the floor. A very ingenious, and, doubt-
less, practically suflicient refutation; but the
claims of logic, as the criterion of the validity or
invalidity of every argument, must be otherwise
satisfied. It is at once perceived that the diffi—
culty lies in the power of the word where. This
' word is used sometimes in the strict scientific
sense of exact lo ,‘ality, sometimes in tlie'looser
sense ’of relative position. Thus: stiictly, the
place whole the book' 1s, is simply the space occu-
pied by it; nothing m01e, nothing less, and yet, if
asked whom is the book, one wouli most likely

and much less

reply—“On the table,” “in the 100111,’ or some-
thing of like definitcness; in which answers the
where of the book is evidently not defined in terms -
of absolute orexact locality, but in terms of re
lative position. Now, in which of these senses is
the term used in the reasoning under considera-
tion? Not in the latter, manifestly; for, while it
is clearly impossible for the book to move in the

Knot place where it is, in the space by ' it fully 00‘
cnpied, it is none the less evident that no consid
eration prevents Why it should not move about on
the table or in. the room. To maintain, then, that.
where is used in its loose, inexact signification is
to abandon the sophism as puerile; for, in that

case, the first assumption in the minor premiss.
the body can not more where it 1's, becomes trans-
parently false. It 1e1nai11s, then, that where is
used in its strict sense as designating exact local-
ity, occupied space. This admitted, it is now af-
firmed that the major premiss is simply falsc.——~
For it is evidently but a disjunctive statement of
the simple hypothetic proposition, if a body
moves, it must move somewhere. This somewhere ,
is dichotomized into where 1'6 2'8 and where it 2's
not. Now it is not true either that a body must
move somewhere or that it does move somewhere.
A body must and does move somcwhcncc and some
whither, but somewhere—never. Be it now dis
tinctly understood, that the term where is used in
its exact and definite sense of occupied space, a
sense which, it had been proved, it anust have, if
the minor premise is to be saved from transpa-
rent falsehood, and the sophism from consequent
puerility. From the foregoing reasoning there is
but one escape, that is, to affirm that the word
where is used in its stiict sense in the minor, but
in its accommodate sense in the major p1emiss.
If so, the syllogism presents four terms, and is
convicted of ambiguous middle; for the word
where is evidently the essential factor in the mid-
dle term. This subterfuge, then, avoids a mate-
rial fallacy at the expense of a formal one; Scylla
we shun, but leap into Charybdis.

Lest to some one it' may not yet be perfectly
clear that a body does not move somewhere, and to
show that the above solution is not a superficial
cavil, but that it grasps the fallacy in its deepest
philosophical import, it is deemed proper to in—
stitute a still minuter investigation; and this
even at the apparent risk of transgressing the
mentally prescribedhnfits of this article. “Grant

’ it may be said, “that a body moves somewhcncc
and somcwhithcr, is it not yet true that all motion
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marily, and immediately. It is the infinite recep-
tacle of eccistences, and as such is the primary and
immediate condition of being; of action it is only
secondarily and mediately the condition. A body
must be in space; only in the modified s w. Possibly the Edit; 01s did wrong in
admitting " 'T inothy 1;”101iei'0f “Cl-f but now
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. shall with unfaltering step pursue truth, in de—
‘pite of the scofi's and scorns of an infidel world
the frowns of powe ',the whines of bigotry, and
the opposition and discountenanee of friends and
kindred. Vile have great respect and ven eration
for age; he. twe cannot yield, where truth is con-
cerned, tor go, even though she ve ar a wig 011 her
head as white: is Alpine snow.

1st. \Ve charge our reviewer w ith 1nisrepicsen-
tation and unfairness. He has gaihled 0111 sen-
tences from beginning to end, and made them
mean u the author never intented. He, evi—
dently, either did not grasp 0r comprehend our
thought,- or intentionally misconstrued our mean—
ing. CIn case the former be true it certainly would
have been the part 01 risdom in him not to have
attempted a refutation 0'1 that which he did 1101'
adequately understand. If the latter be true, it
is incontrover i‘oie proof that he is not an honest
seeiier aiter truth; for, he would not then have
perverted our sentences. Again: we charge out
reviewer vith cowardice. W'e think it unworthy
of a brave 1119.11,:111d much less of a critic, to make
an assault under the guise of a 110m deplume.

Ed. ’1imothy says. "G. cannot prove that Chris-
tianity exhibi's one soot in the scriptural use of
the term.” ‘lhe 1the incins by scriptural use of
the term, we ar eat a loss to conceive. ’l'he word
sectnieans the su Ime thing in Scripture that it
menus anyv" .re else. It has not one e1 wing in
sacred h istoi' 1 and another in profane. The same
- idea' is i nth-e were, whether 11 led in a sc1‘111tu1al

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part of Christ’s Church, or they are not honest
and sincere. IVe do not believe that Timothy will
dare assume the responsibility of the latter alter-
native. Then, he believes that the sects are Chris-
tians, and he does not believe it.

3d. Timothy says: “Cease to look into your mind
to learn what is right, and hear the sayings of the
Savior and do them.” How are we to hear and do
the sayings of our Savior, if it be not by means of
mind? Mind or consciousness is the condition of
all knowledge, whether revealed or not. ’Tis not
the eygthat sees, nor the ear that hears, but the
mind. The physical eye and car are merely or—
gans of the mind, or media of communication.
Truth is revealed in the Bible, but unless it comes
Within the sphere of our consciousness, it will do
us no good. Mind is the ultimate appeal. By
means of mind only, can we learn the will of God
as revealed in the Bible. “7e know what is in the
Bible only as we have the faculty of knowing—-
The faculty or power of knowing may be strong in
one man and weak in another. Thus arises the
different interpretations of God’s will.

Some minds consider one thing as His will, and
some another. The superior mind can know
God’s will more perfectly than the inferior, be-
cause, it has a more expansive faculty of knowing in
general. We would recommend to our reviewer,
before he writes anything more about mind, to
learn, at least, the alphabet in the science of mind.

We did say that religious debates were produe»
tive of “some