The elements of inductive logic1870 - Logic - 348 pages |
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... latter hypothesis , which is thus entitled to rank as a valid induction . Our inductions are often , as in this case , the result of an attempt to decide between rival hypotheses , or a reply to the question whether some particular ...
... latter hypothesis , which is thus entitled to rank as a valid induction . Our inductions are often , as in this case , the result of an attempt to decide between rival hypotheses , or a reply to the question whether some particular ...
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... latter ( the particular ) , I prefer adhering to the common , and , as I think , the more intelligible account of induction . Mr. Mill is hardly consistent in his language . He himself , in one place , speaks of Induction as ' generali ...
... latter ( the particular ) , I prefer adhering to the common , and , as I think , the more intelligible account of induction . Mr. Mill is hardly consistent in his language . He himself , in one place , speaks of Induction as ' generali ...
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... latter to follow upon the volition of the former ; but are not able to observe or conceive the tie , which binds together the motion and volition , or the energy by which the mind produces this effect . The authority of the will over ...
... latter to follow upon the volition of the former ; but are not able to observe or conceive the tie , which binds together the motion and volition , or the energy by which the mind produces this effect . The authority of the will over ...
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... latter is , certainly , not Hume's assertion . It is true that he bases the notion of causation on experience , but then he regards experience as the sole source of all our knowledge . Sir William Hamilton's note requires only to be ...
... latter is , certainly , not Hume's assertion . It is true that he bases the notion of causation on experience , but then he regards experience as the sole source of all our knowledge . Sir William Hamilton's note requires only to be ...
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... latter clause must be regarded as emphatic , and suggests , I think , a sufficient answer to those authors who call in question their universal reception . Mr. Lewes , speaking of the Law of Universal Causation , says , ' All believe ...
... latter clause must be regarded as emphatic , and suggests , I think , a sufficient answer to those authors who call in question their universal reception . Mr. Lewes , speaking of the Law of Universal Causation , says , ' All believe ...
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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...