What is the philosophical background of Kent's repertory?

1. The philosophy of deductive logic is the background of Kent’s Repertory from general to particular.
2. Being a follower of Hahnemannian Homoeopathy Kent felt that the logic of the Homoeopathic system was not strictly followed in finding out of similimum from the repertories available in his time. A master of Materia Medica he noticed that particulars do not always fall in line with general and therefore severely criticized the faulty method of giving credence to parts and over-generalized the symptoms.
3. Man is prior to the organ, man is the will and the understanding and the house where he lives in, is his body.
4. Generals are dealt with in depth followed by particulars and minute particulars. Here unlike Boenninghausen’s Repertory, symptoms are studied under broad general rubrics followed by sub-rubrics and sub-subrubrics going towards progressive differentiation.
5. In The construction of his Repertory he has evaluated drugs in three grades making comparison easier:
a) 3 marks- First grade- Felt strongly by all or majority of provers- confirmed on reproving and verified in clinical practice.
b) 2 marks- Second grade- brought out by a few provers and occasionally verified.
c) 1 mark- Third grade- brought by Prover now and then, but verified clinically.
6. The Repertory contains rubrics arranged in alphabetical order, from general to particulars.
7. Cross references and similars have been inserted whenever it was thought they would be needed.
8. Evolution of symptoms: Kent has classified the symptoms into three main categories; General, common, and particular.