5 Sept. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

Division of Aggregates

Linnæus

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3. For further illustration, he gives two other nests of aggregates: the one constituted by the divisions to which the territory of a political state has been found subjected; the other by the divisions to which the Military Establishment has been found subjected.

Unfortunately, in both these instances the number of these successive acts of division and subdivision being altogether arbitrary, has, in different political states and in the same political state at different times, been different, and moreover as to the denominations which for the designation of them are employed by him, the language in which this work of his is written being the latin language, it is from that language that they were all of them, necessarily deduced. But in neither of those instances does the Latin language afford an adequate number of names of aggregates, the relation of which to each other in respect of capacity and amplitude were or are found by him determinate. {The Geographical or Topographical aggregates, which he employs, and which are constituted by portions of the Earth's surface, with their divisions and subdivisions, are, 1. Provinciæ, put as correspondent to Classis and Genus summum, 2. Territoria, put as correspondent to Ordo, and Genus intermedium; 3. Parocciæ, put as correspondent to Genus, and Genus præmium[?]; 4. Pagi, put as correspondent to Species; 5. Domicilium, put as correspondent to Varietas and to Individuum.

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