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Logic II 44

{Section title: Classificatory Science more than Taxonomy}

I have now said enough for our present purpose
concerning the discovery of natural or real classes.

Having found the natural classes of the objects to be classified, we
shall then use the same methods, -- probably, in most
cases, the third, -- in order to discover the natural classes
of those classes that one have found. Is the the whole
business of classification? No serious student can hold it
to be so. The classes found have to be defined, naturally if
possible, but if not, then at least conveniently for the purposes of
science. They have not only to be defined but described,
a business to which/ a story without an end. This applies,
of course, not merely to the species of immediate classes of the
objects described, but of the higher orders of classes. There
may also be relations between the different classes relations, each of which
relates are appertain just as much to the descriptions of any one of
the set of classes to which it belongs as to any other.

In regard to the higher orders of classes, among so far as concerns animals

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