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| Geological Society of London - 1901 - 740 pages
...history of scientific progress. Speaking on this subject, De Morgan says : — ' Modern discoreries have not been made by large collections of facts,...discussion, separation, and resulting deduction of a truth thug rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis which means a supposition proper... | |
| Geological Society of London - 1901 - 730 pages
...subject, De Morgan says : — ' Modern diseoTeries hare not been made by large collections of facto, with subsequent discussion, separation, and resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis which means a supposition proper to explain them, the necessary... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 552 pages
...meteorological theory formed by masses of observations, he would ncver have said what I have quoted.] Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition, proper to explain them. The necessary... | |
| William Ramsay - 1896 - 274 pages
...WITH PORTRAITS ILonDon MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. 1896 All rights reserved " Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition, proper to explain them. The necessary... | |
| James Welton - 1896 - 374 pages
..."Modern disCh. II. De Morgan') statement of inductive method. Steps of inductive method. "coveries have not been made by large collections of facts "...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts "have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition ''proper to explain them. The... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 pages
...somewhat discredited by the history of scientific progress. Speaking on this subject, De Morgan says: "Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis which means a supposition proper to explain them, the necessary... | |
| John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1903 - 634 pages
...RAMSAY, FRS [Philosophical Transactions, 186 (A), pp. 187—241, 1895.] " Modern discoveries liavc not been made by large collections of facts, with...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothe»i*, which means a titjfifxmtimi, proj>er to explain them. The... | |
| Pathological Society of London - 1907 - 496 pages
...profoundest and subtlest thinkers of the nineteenth century." " Modern discoveries," writes de Morgan, " have not been made by large collections of facts,...resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition proper to explain them. The necessary... | |
| 1911 - 490 pages
...Director of the Lick Observatory, perceived the desirability of observing the line of sight vdocities of as many stars as possible, believing that the outcome...modern methods of analysis, such as Prof. Schuster's Periodogram method and Prof. Karl Pearson's method of correlation, giving as illustrations of the first... | |
| James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - 544 pages
.....method of investigation.. .The ~es¥ence~bf the method of induction is clearly put by De Morgan : " Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections...separation, and resulting deduction of a truth thus ren1 See Ch. 30. \ ed perceptible. YA. few facts have suggested an hypo- \ ris, which means* a supposition... | |
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