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thoroughgoing and scientific manner. For my part, Having
devoted many years to the study it, I am entitled to
my opinion upon a metaphysical question; although it may be a mistaken one; and in my opinion, it is a shallow
and [seidistic?] metaphysics which declares a "real class",
in the sense in which these writers attach to the term, to
be an impossible thing. However, as far as I am
concerned, I do not find At the same time, I am unable tos see any need at all in positive
science of for considering such metaphysically real classes.
It seems to me that To my apprehension the business of classification due has
nothing to do no concern with them, but only with true and natural
classes, in another and a purely experiential sense. For example,
if I were to attempt to classify the arts, which I shall not do, I should
have to recognize, as one of them, the art of illumination,
and should have occasion to remark that lamps form
a true, real, and natural class, because every lamp has
been made and has come into being as a result of an
aim common and peculiar to all lamps. A class, of