OBJECTIVE

Terms expre ing the distinction which in analyzing cverv intellectual act we nece arily make between ourselves, the conscious sub ject, and that of which we are conscious, the object. "1 know." and "something is known by me," are convertible propositions; every act of the soul which Is not thus resolvable belongs to the emotive part of our nature, as dis anguished from the intelligent and percipient. For the distinction between subject and object, all-Important in intellectual philosophy, and the neglect of which has been the cause 01 infinite confusion and perplexity, we tire in debted to the schoolmen; from whom it was derived, through Wolf and Leibnitz, by Kant and the modern German philosophers. SUBJECT OF A PROPOSITION, in Logic, is the term ofosition,which Lome.the other is affirmed or denied. See Term, Prop SUBLAPSARIANS or INFRALAP3ARIANS. In Ecclesiastical History. The greater number of the divines of the Reformed or Calvin ist churches have held that God permitted the fill of Adam, without positively predetermining it; a doctrine which has been termed sub laps aria i i, in opposition to the high Calvin is tic or supralapsarian view. (Mosheim, cent, xvii., sect. 2.) See Supralapsarians. [s. 1205]