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Either the method is applicable
to these objects, nor not. If yes, so much the
better: if not, why not?
Applied to the purpose of demonstration,
the mathematician
has a method of his own, for
the designation of which the
name of the method of exhaustion
has been employed by
him. Applied to the combined
purposes of exposition, or
and invention the logician
has a method belonging to himself,
for the designation of
which this name denomination
has been employed. For the
performance of this operation
the first step to be taken consists
in the bringing together to the view
to under one and the same point of view
under one view the whole list of
the objects on which the ultimate
operation is to be performed. Thus
brought together into one groupe,
the individuals of which it is composed
these great individual subjects of the
geometrical kingdom will like
those of the vegetable
end of the animal kingdom, be
ready to have subjected to the operation
the undergo the process of
classification. Some property
which a number of them seem
to possess in common, will form
a principle of union in virtue
of which by the bond the means
of some common appellation
they will be bound up together into
a correspondent groups. In looking
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