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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... motion ; remembering that Diogenes ' argument would have been equally conclusive , though his individual perambulations might not have extended beyond the circuit of his own tub . Whatever may be the value of what the author has ...
... motion ; remembering that Diogenes ' argument would have been equally conclusive , though his individual perambulations might not have extended beyond the circuit of his own tub . Whatever may be the value of what the author has ...
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... motions so far as is neces- sary for distinguishing those which ought to be performed from those which ought not . To a similar extent , and no further , it is necessary that the logician should analyse the men- tal processes with which ...
... motions so far as is neces- sary for distinguishing those which ought to be performed from those which ought not . To a similar extent , and no further , it is necessary that the logician should analyse the men- tal processes with which ...
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... motion and of the com- position of forces in dynamics , the equal mobility of fluids in hydro- statics , the laws of reflection and refraction in optics , are the first principles of those sciences , ) but are merely necessary ...
... motion and of the com- position of forces in dynamics , the equal mobility of fluids in hydro- statics , the laws of reflection and refraction in optics , are the first principles of those sciences , ) but are merely necessary ...
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... motions , whether regular or apparently ano- malous , of all the bodies of the solar system ( each of which motions had been inferred by a separate logical operation from separate marks ) were all marks of moving round a common centre ...
... motions , whether regular or apparently ano- malous , of all the bodies of the solar system ( each of which motions had been inferred by a separate logical operation from separate marks ) were all marks of moving round a common centre ...
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... motion ; and everything which by those same laws was a mark of any oscillatory motion among the particles of an elastic medium became a mark of the corresponding sound . And thus many truths , not before suspected , concerning sound ...
... motion ; and everything which by those same laws was a mark of any oscillatory motion among the particles of an elastic medium became a mark of the corresponding sound . And thus many truths , not before suspected , concerning sound ...
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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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