A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationLongmans, Green, 1900 - 622 pages |
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... give whatever provisional definition he pleases of his own subject . But fold themselves as we advance , why this should be not only the provisional but the final definition . It involves , at all events , no arbitrary change in the ...
... give whatever provisional definition he pleases of his own subject . But fold themselves as we advance , why this should be not only the provisional but the final definition . It involves , at all events , no arbitrary change in the ...
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... give him proofs , but teaches him what makes them proofs , and how he is to judge of them . It does not teach that any particular fact proves CHAPTER I. OF THE NECESSITY OF COMMENCING WITH AN ANALYSIS DEFINITION AND PROVINCE OF LOGIC ...
... give him proofs , but teaches him what makes them proofs , and how he is to judge of them . It does not teach that any particular fact proves CHAPTER I. OF THE NECESSITY OF COMMENCING WITH AN ANALYSIS DEFINITION AND PROVINCE OF LOGIC ...
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... give no answer . There is as yet nothing to believe , or to disbelieve . Now , however , let me make , of all possible assertions respecting the sun , the one which involves the least of reference to any object besides itself ; let me ...
... give no answer . There is as yet nothing to believe , or to disbelieve . Now , however , let me make , of all possible assertions respecting the sun , the one which involves the least of reference to any object besides itself ; let me ...
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... give information . Names , therefore , shall always be spoken of in this work as the names of things themselves , and not merely of our ideas of things . But the question now arises , of what things ? and to answer this it is neces ...
... give information . Names , therefore , shall always be spoken of in this work as the names of things themselves , and not merely of our ideas of things . But the question now arises , of what things ? and to answer this it is neces ...
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... give them a common name . It has been seen that all concrete general names are connotative . Even abstract names , though the names only of attributes , may in some in- stances be justly considered as con- notative ; for attributes ...
... give them a common name . It has been seen that all concrete general names are connotative . Even abstract names , though the names only of attributes , may in some in- stances be justly considered as con- notative ; for attributes ...
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affirmed animal antecedent applied Archbishop Whately argument ascer ascertained assertion attri attribute axioms believe body called cause character circumstances co-existence colour common conceive conception conclusion connotation consequent considered copula deductive definition degree denote distinction doctrine duction effect empirical laws ence equal evidence example exist experience expression fact fallacy feelings generalisation genus ground human idea individual induction inference inquiry instance kind knowledge known language laws of causation laws of nature Logic logicians major premise meaning ment mental merely Method of Agreement Method of Difference mind mode motion object observation particular peculiar persons pheno phenomena phenomenon philosophy position possess predicate premises principle produced properties proposition proved ratiocination reason resemblance result scientific sensations sense Sir William Hamilton Socrates species stances substances sufficient supposed syllogism term theory things thought tion true truth uniformity universal universal proposition Whewell word
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