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Term: 
Natural Class
Quote: 

…a natural class [is] a family whose members are the sole offspring and vehicles of one idea, from which they derive their peculiar faculty…

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II). MS [R] 427.
References: 
EP 2:125; CP 1.222
Date of Quote: 
1902
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