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abstract according actual affirmative animal applied Aristotle attribute belongs called cause common Comprehension conceived concept conclusion connection consequent constitute contains contradictory contrary conversion Crown 8vo definite deny depends determined distinction Edition equally essential example exclusion existence experience expression Extension fact false Figure follows formal former further genus given gives ground Hamilton holds idea identity Illustrations immediate indicates individual Induction inference intuition judgment kind knowledge known language least less limited Logic major mark matter means merely middle mind minor nature necessarily necessary negation negative notion object observation opposition original particular plant positive possible predicate premisses principle proper properly proposition quantity question reality reasoning reference regarded relation represent rule sense simply speak species statement supposed Syllogism taken term thing third thought tion true truth universal vols whole
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Page 474 - 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 215 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.