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" 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... "
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... - Page 182
by John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 600 pages
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 4

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1846 - 632 pages
...a sufficient degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again, and uot only again but always." " The proposition, that the course of nature is uniform,...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction ;" — " unless it were true, all other inductions,'' as he says in another place, " would be fallacious."...
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The London Lancet, Volume 1

1851 - 592 pages
...enables us to apply such inductively raised laws as that of Wells, universally. According to Mill, " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform,...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction." And if it be asked how these ideas of the essential connexions of properties are derived, I answer...
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The Elements of Logic: Adapted to the Capacity of Younger Students, and ...

Charles Kittredge True - 1860 - 188 pages
...that any universal principles, even the first principles of mathematics, are intuiti ve. He says : u Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...axiom of induction. It would yet be a great error to consider this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive process. On the contrary, I...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1864 - 974 pages
...of circumstances, iuppen again; and not only again, but as often as the same circumstances recur." " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction." Yet "this great generalization is itself founded on prior generalizations." " The course of nature...
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 968 pages
...that source, the main question of the science of logic is the enquiry, What is induction? Although the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle of induction, it would yet be a great error to offer this large generalisation as any explanation of...
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 pages
...that source, the main question of the science of logic is the enquiry, What is induction ? Although the proposition that, the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle of induction, it would yet be a great error to offer this large generalisation as any explanation of...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 85

1868 - 380 pages
...whether the view of such a mighty intellect, resting so unquestioningly on such * His words are : " Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...contrary, I hold it to be itself an instance of induction by no means of the most obvious •kind." — Logic, bookiii. chap. 3, 1. He further explains his meaning...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 85

1868 - 394 pages
...not whether the view of such a mighty intellect, resting so unquestioningly on such * His words arc : "Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...contrary, I hold it to be itself an instance of induction by no means of the most obvious kind." — Logic, book iii. chap. 3, 1. He further explains his meaning...
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The Principles of Logic: For High Schools and Colleges

Aaron Schuyler - 1869 - 182 pages
...for ? Whately replies, this " is a question foreign to our purpose." 8. Mill's Theory of Induction. " "Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...axiom of Induction. It would yet be a great error to oft'er this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive process. On the contrary, I hold...
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The Principles of Logic: For High Schools and Colleges

Aaron Schuyler - 1869 - 180 pages
...which the conclusion is demonstrably certain, this theory certainly fails ; for, Mr. Mill holds, 1st. That the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle or general axiom of Induction. 2d. That this principle is itself an induction of by no means the most obvious kind. 3d. That far from...
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