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existents to be, it still remains real in some measure. Now the doctrine of scholastic realism neither is that all concepts are real (which would be the ne plus ultra of absurdity) nor that any concept is perfectly real; but that some concepts are real in some measure. The form of a predicate, as "heavy," for which I prefer to substitute that rheme, or blank form of proposition which becomes a proposition, however nonsensical, as soon as each blank is filled by a designation of [a] sample object whether it be by a familiar proper name, or by a well known individual series such as "____ is heavy," or "The velocity of ____ undergoes an acceleration in amount ____ and in the direction ____." A subsidiary form of expression of a concept is a hypostatic abstraction, such as "weight" or "acceleration."