 | Noah Porter - 1872 - 112 pages
...uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must not be received as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it...further, is to make a supposition without evidence," etc. * " But if all this is so, I may as well give up my faith in the solar spectrum. Sodium burns... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 166 pages
...planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that...means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of We are, then, inevitably driven back from the infinite ; our faculties and our assertions can in no... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 pages
...planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of il only which is witliin the range of our means of sure observation, with n rfaxonable degree of extension... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1874 - 286 pages
...remarks, — " The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that...observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacetit cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1874 - 480 pages
...uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as the law of the universe, but of that portion of it only...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases." I freely admit all this in regard to the order observable everywhere in our Cosmos ; there may or may... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 594 pages
...and beyond the possible range of our experience," and contends that " the law of causation must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of cur means of observation," he is careful to subjoin " with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 606 pages
...planet. The uniformity in tho succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within tho range of our means of sure observation, with a reatonable decree of exlentiun to adjacent easen.... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 592 pages
...the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of tdat portion of it oaly which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a rcasonable degrcc of rxtentiun to adjacent eases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without... | |
 | 1875 - 596 pages
...required, an essential qualification. The uniformity of nature, he said, " must be viewed, not as the law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of iure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases" (Logic, vol. ii. p. 108,... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 pages
...required, an essential qualification. The uniformity of nature, he said, " must bo viewed, not as the law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is u'it/iin the range of our means of mire obscrration, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent... | |
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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... 
