Blunder

, for that of the particular species. I will venture, therefore, to propose the following: a

Bull

consists in a mental juxta-position of incongruous images or thoughts with the sensation, but without the sense, of connection. The psychological conditions of the possibility of a

Bull

, it would not be difficult to determine; but it would require a larger space than can be afforded here, at least more attention than my readers would be likely to afford. There is a sort of spurious

Bull

which consists wholly in mistake of language, and which the closest thinker may make, if speaking in a language of which he is not master.

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