 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pagina’s
...number of general propo' sitions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could bo made respecting any other groups into which the same...classified, should, if possible, be those which are the causes of many other properties ; or, at any rate, which are sure marks of them. ... A chiHsiliculioii... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pagina’s
...earth's surface (as it resists the pressure of the atmosphere) is measured by the column of merare formed into groups,, respecting which a greater number...classified, should, if possible, be those which are the causes of many other properties ; or, at any rate, which are sure marks of them. ... A classification... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1914 - 698 pagina’s
...such an order, as will best conduce to the remembrance and to the ascertainment of their laws. ' ' The ends of scientific classification are best answered...number of general propositions can be made, and those more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pagina’s
...earth's surface (as it resists the pressure of the atmosphere) is measured by the column of merare formed into groups, respecting which a greater number...those propositions more important, than could be made retpccting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. The properties, therefore,... | |
 | William Alexander Hunter - 1876 - 1010 pagina’s
...classification. "The ends of scientific classification," says Mr. JS Mill (Logic, vol. ii. p. 264), "are best answered when the objects are formed into...into which the same things could be distributed." This is a fair statement of the merits of a classification that is really scientific, as distinguished... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 654 pagina’s
...classification ; a •greater number of general propositions can be made respecting the groups, and these propositions more important, than could be made respecting...groups into which the same things could be distributed. But when we examine liis higher groups we find that his system sometimes compels the disruption of... | |
 | 1887 - 662 pagina’s
...those groups respecting which a greater number of general assertions can be made, and those assertions more important than could be made respecting any other...groups into which the same things could be distributed " (Mill). After all this arranging of Things by means of intensive attributes mentally abstracted from... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1890 - 808 pagina’s
...number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more importaDt, than those which could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed." But we meet at starting with the difficulty that those propositions which are the most important in... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1891 - 832 pagina’s
...subtle distinctions. Principles § 2. As Mill says1: — " The ends of scientific classification catton? are best answered when the objects are formed into...made, and those propositions more important, than those which could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed."... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1896 - 456 pagina’s
...clause must be supplied if there is the slightest danger of a misunderstanding1. l As Mill says: — "The ends of scientific classification are best answered...made, and those propositions more important, than those which could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed."... | |
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups... 
