WHEN APPLIED TO INCORPOREAL THINGS, "PARTS" HAVE DIFFERENT SENSES.

Further, treating of incorporeal things, "parts" is taken in several

senses. Speaking of numbers, we may say that two is a part of ten

(referring exclusively to abstract numbers). We may also say that a

certain extension is a part of a circle or line. Further, a notion is

said to be a part of science.

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