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adduced amongst animals antecedents appears application Aristotle ascertained Bacon body called carbonic acid causal connexion causation cause and effect character circum circumstances classification cloth Concomitant Variations consequently deductive deductive reasoning Dicotyledones divisions employed enquiry Enumerationem Simplicem error event example experience Extra fcap fact of causation fallacy False Analogy French furnish G. C. Lewis generalisations genus groups heat Herschel History hypothesis Inductio per Enumerationem inductive methods inference instances invariably language Latin latter laws Method of Agreement Method of Concomitant Method of Difference Mill Mill's Logic Mill's Methods mind moon noticed Novum Organum object observed particular Pharmacologia pheno phenomena plants points present probably produce proposition Provençal quæ reason regarded resemblance result says scientific sepals species Stamens stances student substance supposed surface temperature theory tion truth Uniformity of Nature universal W. W. Skeat Whewell words
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Page 269 - Discovery of a New World, or a Discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon...
Page 19 - ... reflecting also on what passes within itself, and observing a constant change of its ideas, sometimes by the impression of outward objects on the senses, and sometimes by the determination of its own choice ; and concluding from what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will, for the future, be made in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways; considers, in one thing, the possibility of having any of its simple ideas changed, and, in another, the possibility...
Page 239 - Parallelograms upon equal bases, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 157 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 146 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 18 - 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 170 - 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 212 - 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 328 - 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...
Page 85 - ... what it eminently includes ; by an example, not by a precept; in short, instead of Definition we have a Type for our director. ' A Type is an example of any class, for instance, a| species of a genus, which is considered as eminently pos-l sessing the characters of the class.