...without itself contradicting that experience, then we may say, as the result of our investigation, that to every reasonable question there is an intelligible...exact, because we do not know. The process of inference we found to be in itself an assumption of uniformity, and that, as the known exactness of the uniformity...

...either we or posterity may know. We have, then, come somehow to the following conclusions : By cientific thought we mean the application of past experience...exact, because we do not know. The process of inference we found to be in itself an assumption of uniformity, and that, as the known exactness of the uniformity...

...infallibility attaching to his work and to reopen the question for solution by scientific thought — " the application of past experience to new circumstances, by means of an observed order of events," as Clifford put it. In the first gace, what are the "well-ascertained and solid facts" of eer ? I have...

...know by the exerciae of scientific thought" (p. 15G). Scientific thought was 'previously defined as "the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events." We have presented these abortive efforts of our author to sound the depths of metaphysics, partly to...

...notice of these great * Prof. Clifford concluded his admirable lecture as follows (p. 511, o. 2) : " By scientific thought we mean the application of past...exact, because we do not know. The process of inference we found to be in itself an assumption of uniformity, and that, as the known exactness of the uniformity...

...in social interpretation by the aid of this method. " By scientific thought," it is properly said, " we mean the application of past experience to new...circumstances by means of an observed order of events." Here there are three conceptions requisite for scientific procedure : (i) past experience, (2) new...

...without itself contradicting that experience, then we may say, as the result of our investigation, that to every reasonable question there is an intelligible...exact, because we do not know. The process of inference we found to be in itself an assumption of uniformity, and we found that, as the known exactness of...

...instruments of scientific thought." The main theses of the lecture are First, that scientific thought is the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events. Second, this order of events is not th oreti ally or absolutely exact, but only exa,ct enough to correct...

...instruments of scientific thought." The main theses of the lecture are First, that scientific thought is the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events. Second, this order of events is not th oreti ally or absolutely exact, but only exact enough to correct...

...main theses will make the position clearer. Clifford emphasizes that scientific thought is essentially the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events, and that its chief business, therefore, is to be the guide of action. Whatever be the particular subject-matter...