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THE PROBLEMS WHICH WE HAVE RAISED. 339
The production of ozone by electric sparks passing
through
the air."
This theory of Mr Bradley s is the most important of
recent investigations.
It seems to be borne out by some
of our familiar ways of expressing propositions e.g.,
"
Once upon a time there was a giant . .
"
.
;
" Now
it came to pass that . .
"
.
;
"It is meet and right and
our bounden duty ..." These all bring out the refer
ence to some Reality outside the S and P of the ordinary
analysis. But this does not dispense with or interfere
with the ordinary analysis, which must be used whenever
the judgments form part of an inference. In fact, Mr
Bradley goes too far in again dissolving the subject of
the proposition into a mere adjective, as in the examples
we have given. My assertions are not usually made of
Reality as a whole, as Mr Bradley suggests; they are
made of some particular portion of Reality, which is
taken (for the time at least) as a separate or individual
thing, and which is the true logical subject of the judg
ment. In our given propositions the real subjects are
respectively,
"
"
Sir C. Wren (as a historical individual) ;
" The holding of an Exhibition in Glasgow in 1901" (as
an idea entertained) ;
" The
"
planets (as a class of
heavenly bodies) ;
"
Ozone
"
(as a substance or gas
existing in Nature). The subjects of our judgments
have very different degrees of permanence or individual
ity,
"
as when we make assertions about
the sun,"
"
the present king,"
"
that cloud,"
"
the plays of Shake
"
speare ; but any such subject is referred to in judg
ment as having an existence distinct from other things,
and as having features or characteristics which may be
of it.
predicated
Mr Bosanquet gives a modified statement which
seems to agree with what we have just said : Judgment