Talk:Class (philosophy)

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nice link to natural kinds

this article is quite unclear and in need of rewriting. it distinguishing between classes, types, and natural kinds based solely on linguistic convention, and that is strange. Nortexoid 05:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This article is fairly unclear, but in order to edit or re-write it a lot of explanation of Venn Diagramms and Predicate Logic would be in order. I don't have enough experience with Wikipedia to recommend expanding, deleting or merging it - but introducing those two topics of Logic would go a long way towards improving the article--Sam 03:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Universals and Classes

I don’t get why classes aren’t considered universals.

The ambiguity between classes, types, kinds, and universals is a serious problem for philosophy. However, the term class is most often used to denote a group of things, or in other words, to class something is to organize a set in a certain way. Universals aren't used in this manner, most often becuase the term universal is used as a property (see predicate logic).--Sam 03:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)