 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...deductive physical sciences to which I have alluded, his conclusions will correspond with facts only in the absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetic truth. It thus appears that Political Economy, according as we... | |
 | Emile Littré, Grégoire Wyrouboff - 1879 - 518 pages
...investigations spéciales enrichiront le 1 His conclusions will correspond \vith facts only in thé absence of disturbing causes which is in other words to say that they reprcseut not positive but hypothetical truth. l'.iti-.Ms !/,!•!., p. 49-50. * La Filotofia ptiitita... | |
 | John Elliot Cairnes - 1869 - 208 pages
...physical sciences to which I have alluded, his conclusions will correspond with facts only in ilie absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetic truth. It thus appears that Political Economy, according as we... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 300 pages
...which may be an essential element in the solution of his problem. The conclusions of each, therefore, when applied to facts, can only be said to be true...say that they are true on the hypothesis that the premisses include all the causes affecting the result. The correspondence of such deductions with facts... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 260 pages
...which may be an essential element in the solution of his problem. The conclusions of each, therefore, when applied to facts, can only be said to be true...say that they are true on the hypothesis that the premisses include all the causes affecting the result. The correspondence of such deductions with facts... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1888 - 244 pages
...deductive physical sciences to which I have alluded, his conclusions will correspond with facts only in the absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetic truth.1 It thus appears that Political Economy, according as... | |
 | Mark Blaug - 1992 - 324 pages
...political economy is a hypothetical, deductive science: its conclusions "will correspond with facts only in the absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetic truths" (Cairnes, 1888, p. 64). He quotes Senior as arguing that... | |
 | Bert Hamminga, Neil De Marchi - 1994 - 372 pages
..."hypothelically" only. As Cairnes writes, the conclusions of both mechanics, astronomy, and economics, "when applied to facts, can only be said to be true...premises include all the causes affecting the result" (Cairnes 1888, p. 61). Cairnes here implies that theories in these fields involve ceteris absentibus... | |
 | D. Wade Hands - 2001 - 496 pages
...have reached the deductive stage. The conclusions of economic science "will correspond with facts only in the absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetical truth" (Cairnes 1875, p. 64, emphasis in original). This is... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 384 pages
...deductive physical sciences to which I have alluded, his conclusions will correspond with facts only in the absence of disturbing causes, which is, in other words, to say that they represent not positive but hypothetic truth.5 It thus appears that Political Economy, according as... | |
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The conclusions of each, therefore, when applied to facts, can only be said to be true in the absence of disturbing causes / which. is, in other words, to say that they are true on the hypothesis that the premises include all the causes affecting the... 
