A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 600 pages |
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abstract affirmed animal antecedent applied Archbishop Whately argument ascer ascertained assertion attributes axioms believe body called carbonic acid cause character circumstances classification coexistence color common conceive conception conclusion connexion connotation consequent considered copula deductive definition degree denote distinction doctrine Duke of Wellington effect empirical laws equal Ethology evidence example exist experience expression fact fallacy feelings follow genus geometry ground human idea individual induction inference inquiry instance kind known language laws of causation logic logicians mark matter meaning men are mortal mental merely Method of Agreement Method of Difference mind mode mortal motion objects observation particular peculiar phenomena phenomenon philosophers possess predicate premisses principle produced properties proposition proved quadrupeds ratiocination reason relation resemblance respecting result scientific sensations sense signification Socrates species substances sufficient supposed supposition syllogism term theory things tion true truth uniformities universal universal proposition Whewell word
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Page 228 - 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.
Page 198 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Page 182 - Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it, the proposition that the course of nature is uniform is the fundamental principle, or general axiom, of Induction. It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalisation as any explanation of the inductive process. On the contrary, I hold it to be itself an instance of induction, and induction by no means of the most obvious kind. Far from being the first induction we make, it is one of the last, or at all events one of those which...
Page 543 - The laws of the formation of character are, in short, derivative laws, resulting from the general laws of mind, and are to be obtained by deducing them from those general laws by supposing any given set of circumstances and then considering what, according to the laws of mind, will be the influence of those circumstances on the formation of character.
Page 91 - The simplest and most correct notion of a Definition is, a proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word...
Page 201 - It is conditional on the occurrence of other antecedents. That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it.
Page 340 - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must bo received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases.
Page 459 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 227 - 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 566 - These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like our other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit of wealth, but accompany it always as a drag or impediment, and are therefore inseparably mixed up in the -consideration of it. Political Economy considers mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth...