ABSTRACT
Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric belong together, in that they make up the whole of a methodology of reason, under which denomination they should indeed be taught together. In rhetoric, the rhetorical figures are roughly what the syllogistic figures are in logic, yet in any case worthy of consideration. The logical rule that judgments that are singular with respect to quantity, hence those that have a singular concept as their subject, are to be treated just like universal. The difference between particular judgments and universal judgments often rests only on the external and contingent circumstance that language has no word for independent expression of the relevant branch within the general concept that is the subject of such a judgment. The disjunctive judgment by contrast asserts that, on the truth of one of the here connected categorical judgments, the falsity of the remainder depends, and vice versa, hence that these propositions, with regard to truth and falsity, are in conflict.
