 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...  A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive - Page 261by John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 600 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1887 - 926 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... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...regularity in any complex set of appearances is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...assumption. The simplest supposition which accords with the more obvious facts is the best to begin with, because its consequences are the most easily traced.... | |
 | J. Welton - 1910 - 344 pages
...false one, to see Ch^iy. a wnat consequences will follow from it ; and by observing " how these difier from the real phenomena, we learn what "corrections...assumption. The simplest " supposition which accords with the more obvious facts, is " the best to begin with ; because its consequences are the " most easily... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 384 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." Increasing 1 Jevons, Lessons in Logic, p. 254. analysis, working hypotheses, gradual elimination of... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 372 pages
...we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from'it; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena,...learn what corrections to make in our assumption." Increasing analysis, working hypotheses, gradual elimination of irrelevant factors, and final decision... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 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... | |
 | Harold Frank Graves, Carle Brooks Spotts - 1927 - 320 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...; and, by observing how these differ from the real phenom'Jevons, "Lessons in Logic," p. 258. ena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption."... | |
 | Paul K. Feyerabend - 1981 - 372 pages
...hypotheses 'are absolutely indispensable in science'. 8 Using them, we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...assumption. The simplest supposition which accords with the more obvious facts, is the best to begin with; because its consequences are the most easily traced.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1994 - 712 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... | |
 | Caroline Levine - 2003 - 264 pages
...agreed. He wrote that the experiment was "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." System of Logic, 326. 16. Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind i: 433. 17. Herschel, Preliminary Discourse,... | |
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