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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... - Page 295
by John Stuart Mill - 1852 - 600 pages
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 293

1921 - 472 pages
...proof. is attainable, eg, whether the shadow I observe is caused by a cloud or a certain near object. elicits the true history of any occurrence from the...mind at once, and attempt to weave them together: he extemporises, from a few of the particulars, a first rude theory of the mode in which the facts...
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Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"

Robert Chambers - 1846 - 234 pages
...capable of observation, which either confirm or refute, unequivocally, the first supposition.' . . . Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...them together : the human faculties are not equal to such an undertaking ; he extemporizes, from a few of the particulars, a first rude theory of the mode...
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Vestige of the Natural History of Creation: With a Sequel

Robert Chambers - 1846 - 318 pages
...capable of observation, which either confirm or refute, unequivocally, the first supposition.' . . . Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...how, for instance, he elicits the true history of any concurrence from the involved statements of one or many witnesses; he will find that he does not take...
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Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any ccmplicated mass of evidence ; let him observe how, for instance, he elicits the true history of any...
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Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 pages
...observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...attempt to weave them together : the human faculties arc not equal to such an undertaking : he extemporizes, from a few of the particulars, a first rude...
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Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Thomas Reid - 1855 - 524 pages
...what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself uuravels any complicated mass of evidence ; let him observe...the involved statements of one or of many witnesses. IIe will find, that he does not take all the items of evidence into his mind at once, and attempt to...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 2

John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 pages
...constitute the final object of the inquiry."* Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels a complicated mass of evidence ; let him observe how,...his mind at once, and attempt to weave them together : he extemporises, from a few of the particulars, a first rude theory of the mode in which the facts...
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Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 pages
...observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we leam what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...them together : the human faculties are not equal to such an undertaking: he extemporizes, from a few of the particulars, a first mde theory of the mode...
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Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will

Joseph Haven - 1857 - 612 pages
...and the operation repeated, until the deductive results are at last made to tally with the phenomena. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...many witnesses. He will find that he does not take .ill the items of evidence into his mind at once, and attempt to weave them together ; the human faculties...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...essentially conjectural, as to some of the very notions which constitute the final object of the inquiry."t Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels...them together: the human faculties are not equal to such an undertaking : he extemporizes, from a few of the particulars, a first rude theory of the mode...
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