Class

Keyword: Class


Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/03/2016
Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

…a class, unlike a kind, is not a character, but is the totality of all those singulars that possess a definite existent character, which is the ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2015
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Detached Ideas on Vitally Important Topics. Lecture II"

a class is a set of objects comprising all that stand to one another in a special relation of similarity.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015
Quote from "Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas"

As experience clusters certain ideas into sets, so does the mind too, by its occult nature, cluster certain ideas into sets. These sets have various forms of connection. The...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

A class […] is the total of whatever objects there may be in the universe which are of a certain description.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Of the Classification of the Sciences. Second Paper. Of the Practical Sciences"

Every class is constituted and held together by a concept or idea expressed in its definition.