The First Part of Logic deals with the Term;
The Second Part deals with the Proposition;
The Third Part deals with the Inference.





PART I.--OF TERMS.




CHAPTER 1.

_Of the Term as distinguished from other words._


57. The word 'term' means a boundary.

58. The subject and predicate are the two terms, or boundaries, of a
proposition. In a proposition we start from a subject and end in a
predicate ( 182-4), there being nothing intermediate between the two
except the act of pronouncing as to their agreement or disagreement,
which is registered externally under the sign of the copula. Thus the
subject is the 'terminus a quo,' and the predicate is the 'terminus ad
quem.'

59. Hence it appears that the term by its very name indicates that