5 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

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Numbers are in methodical order or their visual[?] order in which they have one for their common difference: in any othr they would be unmethodical, confused, difficultly apprehensible and comprehensible.

Methodized otherwise than by means of priority and posteriority, methodized without regard to priority and posteriority, objects may be said to be methodized by simple aggregation, in any inclusion: by being shut up, all together, in a box, or as it were in a box.

To physical and to psychical methodization this distinction is alike applicable.

Ten counters,[?] guineas, say fifty, in number exhibited in a row are methodized by means of succession: enclosed altogether in a rouleau - a sort of extempore paperbox - they are methodized by aggregation and inclosure or inclusion.

Where the number is thus great, the superior convenience of the principle of aggregation and inclosure, as compared with the principle of succession has been experienced by the gamesters whose invention it was, and of this convenience the existence is evidenced by their practice. Displayed in a row, such a number would have required time and labour for the counting of it, and more for the recollection and redisplay of it: disposed in a rouleau, an aggregate in the inclusion of which the number of its elementary parts is known, no counting, no collection, no re-display is necessary.

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