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Logic

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Ch. │ │ Methodization

assistance to

'.I. to perceptive faculties

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Ch.10 or '.12 Methodization - its application to the assistance of the perceptive and conceptive faculties.

Examples.

1. Numbers in general, as disposed in the Numeration Table, in which numbers, as many as ever can be wanted for any purpose, follow one another in an endless succession, having all along at every step unit or number one for their common difference. The order in which they follow one another is an example of the Regula Antecessionis or Antecedentes et Consequentionis.

To form an idea of the use of the order thus given to them, suppose any series of numbers, though it were no more than a hundred, instead of following one another in the order exhibited in the Numeration Table, following one another in an order determined by lot: - how incomprehensible a labyrinth would be the mass composed of those numbers! how impracticable a task the obtaining any tolerable acquaintance with an art now so simple as that of common arithmetic!

Every case of systematical arrangement, performed by Division and Subdivision of aggregates or fictitious masses formed by abstraction, is an exemplification of Methodization performed in the aggregative or co-acervative mode.

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