class-name

How does the meaning of the scientific class-name of "Mammalia" differ from the unscientific of "Beasts"?

Huxley on Whewell on Classification 2005

How does the meaning of the scientific class-name of "Mammalia" differ from the unscientific of "Beasts"?

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

It is the quintessence, the true substance of the conversation, and this remains identical, no matter what may have given rise to the conversation, or what it may be about; the relation between the two being that of a general idea or class-name to the individuals which it covers.

Studies in Pessimism 2004

The class-name ship and Sempach had been the first out of the shipyards, with Speedwell close behind, and all of them were already busy performing their basic function—trying out a new four-nacelle design that was supposed to provide starships with a more streamlined and reliable warp field, capable of higher speeds.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

The class-name ship and Sempach had been the first out of the shipyards, with Speedwell close behind, and all of them were already busy performing their basic function—trying out a new four-nacelle design that was supposed to provide starships with a more streamlined and reliable warp field, capable of higher speeds.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

The class-name ship and Sempach had been the first out of the shipyards, with Speedwell close behind, and all of them were already busy performing their basic function—trying out a new four-nacelle design that was supposed to provide starships with a more streamlined and reliable warp field, capable of higher speeds.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

For things are distributed by the mind into classes owing to their possessing certain attributes in common, and the definition of the class-name can be effected by detailing these attributes, or at least a sufficient number of them.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

Nevertheless it is a somewhat arbitrary one, since, even when the predicate is a class-name, what we are concerned to convey to the mind, is the fact that the subject possesses the attributes which are connoted by that class-name.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

A common term or class-name was known to mediæval logicians under the title of a Universal; and it was on the question 'What is a

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

Common Nouns Substantive correspond with Things proper, not aspiring to the rank of Personality; Things put in contrast with Persons; Things in that sense in which we speak of a person derogatorily as _a mere thing_; hence, _common_ or _ordinary_, and as a common, undistinguished herd of objects, only named and discriminated by the class-name of the class of objects to which they belong.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various