Classifications

Examples

• Nevertheless, when w e compare these classifications diligently, we find very marked differences between Bacon's views and the medieval. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Names and classifications differ in their value and reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This case well illustrates the spirit of our classifications. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is achieved principally by absorbing into your thinking a lively doubt about all classifications and general terms, for they are the basis of statistical measurement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It includes making distinctions, definitions, divisions, and classifications for the mere sake of making them--with no objective in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Typist: Paul