 | Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - 320 pages
...and 5): "The law of causation must be received . . . as a law . . . of that portion of the universe which is within the range of our means of sure observation...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases," and (B. III. c. xiv. sec. 7) : " To endeavor in conformity with known laws to conjecture what collocations... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 486 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...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases." In this passage he identifies " the uniformity in the succession of events" with " the law of causation."... | |
 | 1881 - 814 pages
...planet. The uniformity in the succession of events otherwise known as 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 extensions to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Cocker - 1882 - 214 pages
...physicists and by metaphysicians. J. 8. Mill says : " The uniformity in the course of events . . . must be received, not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it which is within the range of our means of observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent... | |
 | Joseph Alden - 1866 - 312 pages
...the succession of events," he remarks, " otherwise called the law of causation, must not be received as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only that is within range of our sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases."... | |
 | James McCosh - 1882 - 472 pages
...uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not an 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 - 1882 - 528 pages
...following : " 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...it only which is within the range of our means of mere observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it farther is... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...and beyond the possible rnnge of our experience," and contends that " the law of causation must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that...it only which is within the range of our means of observation," he is careful to subjoin " with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent eases."... | |
 | E. Janes - 1884 - 224 pages
...Logic; — " 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...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases." But the " uniformity of nature " is a very different thing from the "law of causation." In the words... | |
 | William George Ward - 1884 - 438 pages
...Consequently, " the uniformity in the succession of events," and generally of phenomena, " must be received, not as a law of the universe, but of that...within the range of our means of sure observation." (Conclusion of c. 21.) The present issue, then, is reduced to one which would appear very narrow and... | |
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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... 
