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1908 Dec 1
Logic
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which shall truly represent the degrees, kinds, and ranks
of importance of all the resemblances that it finds among
the single objects of the general type that it studies.
It also gives a common name to the single object of each of the groups that
it recognizes. So far, its work is almost exactly like the first part of the
work of the sciences of the third order. The chief difference is that a character may belong to a different proposition or a classificatory group in different degrees. Having
carried out this descriptive work more or less thoroughly, making a strictly
classificatory family of science, corresponding to the descriptive family
of the third order, students of the second order become interested more
and more in two new kinds of questions, giving rise to two new families
of classificatory science. The first of these kinds of questions relates to
how the objects of their study became separated into distinct classes