It is to be remarked of these distinctions, that they express, not what the predicate is in its own meaning, but what relation it bears to the subject of which it happens on the particular occasion to be predicated. There are not some names which are exclusively genera, and others which are exclusively species, or differentiæ; but the same name is referred to one or another predicable, according to the subject of which it is predicated on the particular occasion.Animal, for instance, is a genus with respect to man, or John; a species with respect to Substance, or Being. Rectangular is one of the Differentiæ of a geometrical square; it is merely one of the Accidentia of the table at which I am writing. The words genus, species, etc., are therefore relative terms; they are names applied to certain predicates, to express the relation between them and some given subject: a relation grounded, as we shall see, not on what the predicate connotes, but on the class which it denotes, and on the place which, in some given classification, that class occupies relatively to the particular subject. Ten miles down the road he again stopped the car, waited until there was a complete break in the traffic, then crawled under the car, adjusted the flashlight and tapped at the border of the steel blister with the edge of the cold chisel held firmly in position. What does that mean? I know all that. Why tell me that? Even with these reservations, the Method of Residues is one of the most important among our instruments of discovery. Of all the methods of investigating laws of nature, this is the most fertile in unexpected results: often informing us of sequences in which neither the cause nor the effect were sufficiently conspicuous to attract of themselves the attention of observers. The agent C may be an obscure circumstance, not likely to have been perceived unless sought for, nor likely to have been sought for until attention had been awakened by the insufficiency of the obvious causes to account for the whole of the effect. Andc may be so disguised by its intermixture with a and b, that it would scarcely have presented itself spontaneously as a subject of separate study. Of these uses of the method, we shall presently cite some remarkable examples. The canon of the Method of Residues is as follows: The darkness of the forest on either side pressed in on him, eerily. But he put it out of his mind, comforting himself with the words hed always loved and had used as a mantra whenever he was in a scary situation:Yea, though I may walk alone through the shadow of the Valley of Death, I will fear no evil...for I am the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the valley. In retrospect, I think she meant that we were cross-examining her. I think she meant to say,I refuse to be cross-examined! No one is cross-examining her now. Dr. Lang is merely listening. Andy thinks his sister was talking to Joan Crawford, my mother says. Immunity. Taking a moment to calm himself and get his breath back, he shouted,Its me, you’re all safe, I’m coming in!’ Just as tough as is necessary, Colonel Stepney said. You make a post-mortem. Fine. Whats this got to do with Annie hearing voices? I said:I catch. He observes,[213]that many of the controversies which have had an important share in the formation of the existing body of science, have assumed the form of a battle of Definitions. For example, the inquiry concerning the laws of falling bodies led to the question whether the proper definition of a uniform force is that it generates a velocity proportional to the space from rest, or to the time. The controversy of the vis viva was what was the proper definition of the measure of force. A principal question in the classification of minerals is, what is the definition of a mineral species. Physiologists have endeavored to throw light on their subject by defining organization, or some similar term. Questions of the same nature were long open and are not yet completely closed, respecting the definitions of Specific Heat, Latent Heat, Chemical Combination, and Solution. Hearing things is just another way of saying talking to yourself. You talk things over with yourself. You pose a question, you answer it. Thats not so unusual. Everybody does it. I have entered rather fully into this question in chap. xvii. ofAn Examination of Sir William Hamiltons Philosophy, headed The Doctrine of Concepts or General Notions, which contains my last views on the subject..