8 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

'. │ │ Subalternation Scale

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Zoology is 1. anthropology. 2. herterozoology.[?]

To anthropology belong two scales of disorders: viz. 1. physical order of beng, diseases. 2. psychical, pernicious or otherwise obnoxious acts, including affairs, transgressions, crimes, modes of action.

In each of these kingdoms, between the two points, viz. the highest and the lowest, degrees are placed in any number according to the demand constituted by the state and condition of the science, in respect of cultivation and advancement.

For the formation, {fixation} and designation of these degrees, the name of the kingdom giving name always to the highest aggregate, the course taken {in systematical order} has usually been to begin with the highest {i.e. of course} the most capacious receptacle.

From this, in order to obtain lesser and inferior aggregates, stationed in so many lower levels, it became necessary to have recourse to division; division, say psychical or logical division, was the operation necessarily employed /received[?]/.

In every branch of art and science, the use of definition is universally felt and acknowledged. But, to definition, at any rate in the usual sense of the word, division - psychical or logical division - is a necessary preliminary or accompaniment. In that sense, by definition is meant the indication of a larger aggregate, in which the aggregate in question (the aggregate for the name of which definition is required) is comprized; together with the indication of some property or properties by which the aggregate in question stands distinguished from whatsoever other aggregates are likewise comprized under that same larger aggregate: distinguished, to wit in this manner: viz. that the property so indicated does appertain to the lesser aggregate in question, but does not appertain to those other lesser aggregates from which it is required to be distinguished.

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