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Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)’

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, Charles S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II). MS [R] 427
Date: 
1902
References: 
EP 2:125; CP 1.222
Citation: 
‘Natural Class’ (pub. 28.07.15-10:56). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-minute-logic-chapter-ii-prelogical-notions-section-i-classification-scienc-36.
Posted: 
Jul 28, 2015, 10:56 by Mats Bergman