 | 1921 - 472 pages
...sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...learn what corrections to make in our assumption." (Ibid., bk. 3, ch. 14, ยง 5.) Finally, in what seems his most explicit passage on the subject, Mill... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...complicated and, at first sight, confused sets of appearances.* We have to begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...observing how these differ from the real phenomena. The simplest supposition which accords with the more obvious facts is the best to begin with, because... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1846 - 318 pages
...first sight confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...learn what corrections to make in our assumption. . . ' Some fact,' says M. Comte, ' is as yet little understood, or some law is unknown : we frame on... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 pages
...first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any ctmplicated mass of evidence... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false tfne, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and...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... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1857 - 612 pages
...sight, confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...The simplest supposition which accords with any of tho most obvious facts, is the best to begin with, because its consequences arc the most easily traced.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 pages
...appearances, is nccessarify tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to sec what consequences will follow from it ; and by 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... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1858 - 618 pages
...sight, confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...then rudely corrected, and* the operation repeated, until the deductive results are at last made to tally with the phenomena. Let any one watch the manner... | |
 | Dublin city, univ. coll - 1862 - 1196 pages
...being with the evidence before us, whatever that may bo. " The simplest supposition", says Mr. Mill,8 " which accords with any of the most obvious facts, is the best to bejrin with, because its consequences are the most easily traced. This rude hypothesis is then rudely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1860 - 328 pages
...first sight confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...learn what corrections to make in our assumption. . . ' Some fact,' says M. Comte, ' is as yet little understood, or some law is unknown : we frame on... | |
| |
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and, at first sight, confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how... 
