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But the word collection and other words of the
same general meaning have two different meanings
with a very fine distinction between them. This makes
a large part of the difficulty of defining a collection
and the non-recognition of this distinction
makes a serious stumboling block in the doctrine
of cardinal numbers. In accordance with my views of the Ethics of Terminology,
I am going to make two new
words to distinguish these two meanings. The one
I shall call a gath which is simply the word ‘gather’
with the last syllable dropped. The other I call a
sam which is the word ‘same’ with the last letter
dropped. I also like this word because it is so much
like the word sum, in the phrase sum total. It
also recalls the German word Samlung.