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" Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a complete induction, while in others, myriads of concurring instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever... "
Inductive Logic - Page 39
by William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 174 pages
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 pages
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...establishing an universal proposition ? Whoever can answer tin's question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and has solved...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 pages
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing anun.versal proposition 1 Whoover can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 544 pages
...Generalization does not, indeed, seem to satisfy even our author, in its practical working. " Why," says he, " is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for...exception, known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing an universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ...

John Stuart Mill - 1850 - 616 pages
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...way towards establishing an universal proposition 1 Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of onft unexceptionable witness who should affirm that in...way towards establishing an universal proposition 1 Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 7

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859 - 140 pages
...enumerationem ; lud in what consists the characteristic distinction between it and the Baconian method ? Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Can you give any example of a general...
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The Elements of Logic: Adapted to the Capacity of Younger Students, and ...

Charles Kittredge True - 1860 - 188 pages
...illuminations down the chasms of a past eternity. And is not here the answer to Mr. Mill's earn est inquiry: " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...without a single exception, known or presumed, go so little way toward establishing a universal proposition ?" The diiference in the cases is that the...
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The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul

Noah Porter - 1869 - 752 pages
...believing with assured confidence, that wherever men exist, tlioir heads are not beneath their shoulders Î Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...towards establishing an universal proposition ? "Whoever con answer this question knows moro of tho philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and...
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The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-book of Formal Logic

James McCosh - 1870 - 252 pages
...shown that the sufficiency does not depend on the number of the cases. Mr. Mill puts the question : " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition?" and declares that he who will answer this question is wiser than the ancients....
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The New Englander, Volume 30

1871 - 774 pages
...199, (Spencer's ed. Boston, 1866). f Ham. Metaphysics, pp. 72, 510. Logic, p. 451. (Boston, 1865.) witness who should affirm that in some region of the...exception known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing an universal proposition? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy...
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