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Often appears with: self-knowledge · reason and the intellect · newtonian vs ptolemaic · meaning of words · logic, method, and demonstration · language, naming, and meaning
Usually: reflection (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
After comparing Understanding to Reason and citing Newton versus Ptolemy, Coleridge discusses the need for careful reflection on meanings, defending pedantic terminology as necessary for precise self-knowledge.
[94] See Wisd. of Sol. vii. 22, 23, 27.--H. N. C. [95] Accordingly as we attend more or less to the differences, the *sort* becomes, of course, more or less comprehensive. Hence there arises for the systematic naturalist, the necessity of subdividing the sorts into orders, classes, families, &c.: all which, however, resolve themselves for the mere logician into the conception of *genus* and *species*, *i.e.* the com…