Rather, a special plan
of inquiry must be laid down for each of the classes we have
distinguished, and then, starting from the rules that are
appropriate in each case, it will probably be easier to make our way
right through the task before us. So then, as was said before,' we
must outline a division of our subject, and other questions we must
relegate each to the particular branch to which it most naturally
belongs, speaking of them as 'definitory' and 'generic' questions. The
questions I mean have practically been already assigned to their
several branches.
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First of all we must define the number of senses borne by the term
'Sameness'. Sameness would be generally regarded as falling, roughly
speaking, into three divisions. We generally apply the term
numerically or specifically or generically-numerically in cases
where there is more than one name but only one thing, e.g. 'doublet'
and 'cloak'; specifically, where there is more than one thing, but
they present no differences in respect of their species, as one man
and another, or one horse and another: for things like this that
fall under the same species are said to be 'specifically the same'.
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