The elements of inductive logic1870 - Logic - 348 pages |
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... antecedents , and none others , are introduced , the same consequents will invariably follow . This assump- 3 The expression'will ' is used for the sake of convenience . The argument , however , is not simply from the present to the ...
... antecedents , and none others , are introduced , the same consequents will invariably follow . This assump- 3 The expression'will ' is used for the sake of convenience . The argument , however , is not simply from the present to the ...
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... antecedent or combination of antecedents , is never followed by different effects , the same effect may be due to different causes . We can , thus , always argue from the cause to the effect , but we cannot always argue from the effect ...
... antecedent or combination of antecedents , is never followed by different effects , the same effect may be due to different causes . We can , thus , always argue from the cause to the effect , but we cannot always argue from the effect ...
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... antecedents whose presence or absence is essential to the event , it is usual to single out one as the Cause , and ... antecedents , the withdrawal of any of which , and in the absence of all those antecedents IO NATURE OF.
... antecedents whose presence or absence is essential to the event , it is usual to single out one as the Cause , and ... antecedents , the withdrawal of any of which , and in the absence of all those antecedents IO NATURE OF.
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Thomas Fowler. which , and in the absence of all those antecedents , the introduction of any of which , might frustrate the event . Thus , to take the homely instance of lighting a fire . The application of the lighted match is what ...
Thomas Fowler. which , and in the absence of all those antecedents , the introduction of any of which , might frustrate the event . Thus , to take the homely instance of lighting a fire . The application of the lighted match is what ...
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... antecedent or the sum of the invariable antecedents , cannot be denied . Such is the following : Suitably to this experience , therefore , we may define a cause to be an object , followed by another , and when all the objects , similar ...
... antecedent or the sum of the invariable antecedents , cannot be denied . Such is the following : Suitably to this experience , therefore , we may define a cause to be an object , followed by another , and when all the objects , similar ...
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Page 16 - THE Mind, being every day informed, by the Senses, of the alteration of those simple Ideas, it observes in things without; and taking notice how one comes to an end, and ceases to be, and another begins to exist, which was not before; reflecting also on what passes within it self, and observing a constant change of its Ideas, sometimes by the impression of outward Objects on the Senses...
Page 163 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Page 202 - The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism and its rules are for ratiocination) to which if inductive arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive, and not otherwise.
Page 17 - BUT to hasten to a conclusion of this argument, which is already drawn out to too great a length: we have sought in vain for an idea of power or necessary connexion in all the sources from which we could suppose it to be derived.
Page 155 - The instances, on the contrary, in which no dew, or but a small quantity of it, is formed, and which are also extremely various, agree (as far as we can observe) in nothing except in not having this same property. We seem, therefore, to have detected the characteristic difference between the substances on which dew is produced, and those on which it is not produced. And thus have been realized the requisitions of what we have termed the Indirect Method of Difference, or the Joint Method of Agreement...
Page 265 - ... first, second, and third importance to those who desire to originate just and comprehensive views concerning the structure of our globe. Now Werner had not travelled to distant countries ; he had merely explored a small portion of Germany, and conceived, and persuaded others to believe, that the whole surface of our planet, and all the mountain chains in the world, were made after the model of his own province.
Page 327 - than a belief that every natural substance which possesses any medicinal virtue indicates by an obvious and wellmarked external character the disease for which it is a remedy, or the object for which it should be employed.
Page 169 - Many of the new elements of chemistry have been detected in the investigation of residual phenomena. Thus Arfwedson discovered lithia by perceiving an excess of weight in the sulphate produced from a small portion of what he considered as magnesia present in a mineral he had analyzed.
Page 307 - EG it would be admitted that a great and permanent diminution in the quantity of some useful commodity, such as corn, or coal, or iron, throughout the world, would be a serious and lasting loss; and again, that if the fields and coal-mines yielded regularly double quantities, with the same...