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Observation original Latin: "Observatio."
...observes and preserves it. If another such image comes before it another time, it preserves that one in the same way, and does so as often and as much until it seems to it that its little chamber original German: "Kämmerlein"; the author uses the metaphor of a small room or cabinet to describe the physical seat of memory in the brain. might be cluttered, and the things lie among one another in disorder, in excess, and in an untidy heap. Induction and Logical Conclusion original Latin: "Inductio" and Greek: "σύλλογισμός" (syllogismos). Therefore, it then takes and examines one image against the other: if it finds that it is entirely equal to the other—and from its center gives lines of equal length and equal width or surfaces—it then concludes that it is one [kind of] thing. It creates a common rule and yardstick for it, so that all other things—which are equal to the divided yardstick in one or another size and division—can be measured, regulated, and judged as to whether they, as many individuals original Latin: "individua"; refers to single, distinct objects or beings., belong to a single unity and oneness, or if they are excluded from the same, and how closely they approach original Latin/German: "appropinquiren vnd nahen." the generic center original Latin: "centro generico." In this context, it refers to the essential core or archetype that defines a specific category or genus..
And thus out of a multitude of individuals original Latin: "ex multitudine individuorum." it makes one unity original Latin: "unitet.", which one calls spe-