History of scientific ideas

BOOK VIII.

Chapter 7167 wordsPublic domain

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CLASSIFICATORY SCIENCES.

WHERE a certain apparent difference between things (although perhaps in itself of little moment) answers to we know not what number of other differences, pervading not only their known properties but properties yet undiscovered, it is not optional but imperative to recognise this difference as the foundation of a specific distinction.

JOHN S. MILL, _System of Logic_, b. 1, ch. vii. § 4.

{{95}}