The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for the sake of knowing them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects in which they differ from each... A Class-book of Chemistry - Page 17by Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 462 pagesFull view - About this book
| Isaac Taylor - 1824 - 228 pages
...whole of them more easily, and more perfectly, and remember them with greater facility. The sorting a multitude of things into parcels, for the sake of...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we afctempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects... | |
| William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 710 pages
...above themselves."2 "A class consists of several things coming under a common description."* " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects in... | |
| EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...objects differ, and separates or abstracts those of resemblance, it is called a process of abstraction: as it is a passing from particulars to generals, it...plums ; it would therefore perform the operations of abstraction, generalization, and classification. "Were the chemical elements placed before it on a... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - Chemistry - 1866 - 480 pages
...objects differ, and separates or abstracts those of resemblance, it is called a process of abstraction: as it is a passing from particulars to generals, it...plums; it would therefore perform the operations of abstraction, generalization, and classification. Were the chemical elements placed before it on a table,... | |
| Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1878 - 1082 pages
...above themselves.'" "A class consists of several things coming under a common description."* " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects in... | |
| James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 440 pages
...class consists of several things coming under a common description. ' ' Whately, Log. , bi, § 3. " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects in... | |
| James Harmon Hoose - Teaching - 1879 - 472 pages
...class consists of several things coming under a common description." Whately, Log. , bi,§3. " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multitude of things, we first observe some respects in... | |
| Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1881 - 1080 pages
...above themselves." 2 "A class consists of several things coming under a common description." 3 " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification. When we attempt to classify a multi tude of things, we first observe some respects... | |
| William Fleming - Philosophy - 1890 - 458 pages
...consists of several things coming under a common description " (Whately, Logic, bk. i. sec. 3). " The sorting of a multitude of things into parcels, for...them better, and remembering them more easily, is classification " (Taylor, Elements of Thought). " Classification is a contrivance for the best possible... | |
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