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... Mill , Dr. Whewell , and Sir John Herschel , the Author must , once for all , express his obli- gations . He has , however , ' if he may be allowed to repeat the language already employed in the Preface to his Manual of Deductive Logic ...
... Mill , Dr. Whewell , and Sir John Herschel , the Author must , once for all , express his obli- gations . He has , however , ' if he may be allowed to repeat the language already employed in the Preface to his Manual of Deductive Logic ...
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... Mill's Logic . * It only remains for the Author to express his grateful acknowledgments to those who have assisted him in the execution of the work . These are , in the first place , due to Dr. Liddell , Dean of Christ Church , through ...
... Mill's Logic . * It only remains for the Author to express his grateful acknowledgments to those who have assisted him in the execution of the work . These are , in the first place , due to Dr. Liddell , Dean of Christ Church , through ...
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... Mill's Logic , supplies on some points a valuable complement to it . In this , as in the last edition , I have to acknowledge the kindness of Professor Park of Belfast , whose cor- rections and suggestions have enabled me to make both ...
... Mill's Logic , supplies on some points a valuable complement to it . In this , as in the last edition , I have to acknowledge the kindness of Professor Park of Belfast , whose cor- rections and suggestions have enabled me to make both ...
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... Mill , are by no means invariable rules . ' It must not be supposed that in the employment of the term this or any other rule is always adhered to . Nothing can better show the absence of any scientific ground for the dis- tinction ...
... Mill , are by no means invariable rules . ' It must not be supposed that in the employment of the term this or any other rule is always adhered to . Nothing can better show the absence of any scientific ground for the dis- tinction ...
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... Mill's Logic , Bk . III . ch . v . § 3 . 10 See Dr. Watson's Lectures on Physic , Lecture VI . Note 1.-Mr. Mill ( Logic , Book II . ch INDUCTIVE INFERENCE . 15.
... Mill's Logic , Bk . III . ch . v . § 3 . 10 See Dr. Watson's Lectures on Physic , Lecture VI . Note 1.-Mr. Mill ( Logic , Book II . ch INDUCTIVE INFERENCE . 15.
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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 156 - 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 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 20 - ... we have no idea of connection or power at all, and that these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life. But there still remains one method of avoiding this conclusion, and one source which we have not yet examined. When any natural object or event is presented, it is impossible for us, by any sagacity or penetration, to discover, or even conjecture, without experience, what event will result from it...
Page 19 - 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 333 - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmon wealths are not physical but moral essences.
Page 279 - ... 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 175 - 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 299 - Fallacy is for the most part conveyed, it must of course be often a matter of .doubt, or rather, of arbitrary choice, not only to which genus each kind of Fallacy should be referred, but even to which kind to refer any one individual Fallacy...
Page 169 - 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.