14 Oct. 1814

Logic

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Ch.3.III. Operations

'.6.V. Subjects many

Designation

Denomination - Collective

3 Methodization

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3. Methodization, or Arrangement.

Of this operation, as will more particularly be seen further on under a separate head thus denominated, there are two distinguishable modes: for the designation of one of which the words collective {or cumulative,} of the other the word lineal may be employed: or instead of the lineal mode of methodization, the term methodization by means of precedence may be employed.

To collective or cumulative methodization: {the use of} one of the operations above designated by the term denomination, viz. collective denomination, seems to be an altogether indispensable requisite. A general name is the common - the necessary - tie, by which a number of general or abstract ideas are fixed and fastened together in the mind.

In what respect then is collective methodization distinct from collective denomination? In this only, that where the word methodization is employed, a multitude of groupes or collections of general ideas are considered as being at the same time formed or brought together, and at the same time so constituted and disposed that two or more, each having its collective name or denomination, are connected together by and comprehended within some common name, some name which, being common to them both and not applied to any other, serves at the same time to distinguish them from all objects to which different names have been applied:- the new and larger groupes thus formed being at the same time, in company with some other groupe or groupes formed in the same manner, formed into some still more capacious multitudinous groupe; and so on through any number of processes of ulterior aggregation.