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HEG-EL'S TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECTIVE NOTION. 175 Another way in which the classification is contingent is the relation of the Particulars to the Universal, when the latter is determined. Any difference which will divide the Individuals brought under the Universal is sufficient. No account is taken of whether it is a difference specially con- nected with that Universal. For example, in the first case above, the distinction of good and bad frames is not a speciality of Raphael's pictures, but may be found among the pictures of all painters. Nor do we inquire whether between them the Particulars exhaust all possible cases of the Universal. For although the two Eaphaels which we supposed under discussion were sufficiently discriminated by their good and bad frames, it would be possible for a, Raphael to exist without a frame at all. THE INDIVIDUAL NOTION AS SUCH. This is the synthesis of the Universal and the Particular.. The transition is a simple one, and as often happens in the Doctrine of the Notion, has almost intruded itself when we were considering the thesis and antithesis. We have seen, on the one hand, that the Universal has no meaning without Particulars. For, if the various things to which the Universal is common were not discriminated, they would be only one thing ; and if the Universal were only in one thing, it would cease to be a Universal. On the other hand, we have seen that the Particulars have no meaning without the Universal, since they are not Particulars except in so far as they are subordinated to a Universal. And thus the reality of each thing is only expressible by such a combination of Notions as at once unites it with and separates it from everything else. THE JUDGMENT. JUDGMENT OF INHERENCE. Positive Judgment, This first and simplest form of the Judgment relates itself to the last form of the Notion as Such, not as an advance, but as a mere restatement. This is, of course, the typical and customary relation between a synthesis and the thesis of the next triad. The reality of a thing, we have seen, was expressible only by a combination of Notions. It must therefore be possible to assert some relation between the-.