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 III. HEGEL'S TREATMENT OF THE CATE- GORIES OF THE SUBJECTIVE NOTION. 1 (II.) BY J. ELLIS MCTAGGART. JUDGMENT OF SUBSUMPTION. Singular Judgment. ALL Judgments of Inherence are, as we have said, Singular. The Judgment of Subsumption, which is derived from the Judgment of Inherence, will consequently start as a Singu- lar Judgment. Its outer form will therefore be exactly the same as in the Positive Judgment of Inherence, for ex- ample, "This is red". But the difference is that, in the Judg- ment of Inherence, the singularity of the Judgment was an essential part of its nature as a Judgment of Inherence. Here, on the other hand, it is merely the form with which we start, which can be modified if it is not found to be a suitable form. Particular Judgment. That it is not a suitable form has been already shown, and the increasing definiteness of the ideas only makes the imperfection of the formula more plainly obvious. Again we find an Individual and a Universal, with no possible connexion between them except identity, which identity is impossible by their very definitions. We must pass on. Instead of taking a single Individual, we must take, as the form of Subsumption entitles us to do, several Individuals at once. Thus we reach the Particular Judgment, " Some roses are red ". It will be noticed that we have done more than increase indefinitely the number of the Individuals. Our Singular Judgment had only one Universal red. But our Particular Judgment has two rose and red. 1 Read before the Aristotelian Society.