It is essential to identify the terms of an opposition. Two objects conceived may be contraries while the two acts of conceiving them are not contrary acts. Thinking about black and thinking about white are distinct operations; blackness and whiteness are the contrasting qualities.
The terms image, conception, conceived object and relation must therefore not be substituted indiscriminately. Confusing them changes the force of the objection to the traditional classification.
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It is essential to identify the terms of an opposition. Two objects conceived may be contraries while the two acts of conceiving them are not contrary acts. Thinking about black and thinking about white are distinct operations; blackness and whiteness are the contrasting qualities.
The terms image, conception, conceived object and relation must therefore not be substituted indiscriminately. Confusing them changes the force of the objection to the traditional classification.