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CLASSIFICATION.
In natural corporeal sensible objects, the union of all the
several different qualities requisite to a perfect classification
it depends not upon the workman philosopher <add>operator alone to
form a perfect system classification: it is upon in the union assemblage
of the greatest number of such qualities as we
have enumerated that that perfection consists: but
these qualities must be assembled in nature for their
assemblage to be taken notice of: now all of
these qualities do not exist in assemblage in the
objects of any division of natural things: & hence
it is that that system of classification which shall come nearest
to perfection must ever come short of that degree
of it which we can from concern in imagination: because in by
imagination we can conceive the whole number of
supposing of those qualities to lay accumulated assembled in themselves
in any object, in which a few of them only are assembled
number which in reality are assembled between two
in reality.
subject
of things most
consistent with the mischief of
the writer workman
but such assemblage
most of it, before in order
to be noticed. The
nature of things
must conspire with
the sagacity of
the observer.
Properties of a good Classifici
Another
A method of Classification is the better, the more
ulterior differences between the articles separated
follow these differences which are made
the grounds of separation distinction: when the differences
assumed as the grounds of separation between the
articles of which it consists
are only an index of [still] more differences got
behind.
Perhaps more
important if
were
their motive to
recommendation
Another.
Consistency and uniformity in respect of of the Source
assumed — Persistency in one as far as it
will go, & [afford distinctions] branch out into the requested distinctions
& not shifting (as Blackstone has done) from
one source to another.
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Objects Natural-corporeal X Moral-incorporeal.
A
just the reverse
insensible
It is otherwise with incorporeal artificial objects
modes, as they are some times called, which be
not of nature+ + immediate making [ranking] but of man's creation, may
Attract belief
attention
in
the body of the
work
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