The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism and its rules are for ratiocination) to which if inductive arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive, and not otherwise. The elements of inductive logic - Page 202by Thomas Fowler - 1870 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...logic [is] the estimation of evidence." (Ibid., bk. 4, ch. 1, § 1.) "The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the syllogism...those arguments are conclusive, and not otherwise." (Ibid., bk. 3, ch. 9, § 6.) Bain (Logic, vol. 2, p. 49) largely agrees with this: "Proof, more than... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...are quite as common, on some subjects much commoner, than true ones. The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism...before any one sought to reduce the practice to theory. The assailants of the Syllogism had also anticipated Dr. Whewell in the other branch of his argument.... | |
| George Grote - 1872 - 508 pages
...for interpretation of Induction" (Bk. III. eh. L s. l, p. 313.) — " The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism...Four Methods profess to be, and what I believe they arc universally considered to be by experimental philosophers, who liad practised all of them long... | |
| Francis Herbert Bradley - Logic - 1883 - 584 pages
...facts to universals ? For that is the claim which the Canons set up. "The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism...otherwise. This is what the Four Methods profess to be." JS Mill, Logic, Bk. III. ix. § 6. " In saying that no discoveries were ever made by the four Methods,... | |
| Francis Herbert Bradley - Logic - 1883 - 568 pages
...facts to universals ? For that is the claim which the Canons set up. "The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism...arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive, and not othenvise. This is what the Four Methods profess to be." JS Mill, Logic, Bk. III. ix. § 6. " In saying... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 664 pages
...provide rale» and mode Is, (such as the Syllo|Д9т and its rules are for ratiocination,) to whicli, if inductive arguments, conform , those arguments...before any one sought to reduce the practice to theory. The assailants of the Syllogism had »leo anticipated Dr. Whewell in the other branch of his argument.... | |
| Henry Hughes - Inference - 1894 - 284 pages
...discovery. On the subject of these methods he writes as follows :—" The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism...any one sought to reduce the practice to theory." 2 1 Bk. III. ch. vi. § 3. 2 Bk. III. ch. ix. § 6. II. His first method is called by Mill the method... | |
| Thomas Fowler - Logic - 1895 - 620 pages
...the methods under which it may be shown that our inductive arguments may ultimately be arranged. ' The business of Inductive Logic," says Mr. Mill, '...any one sought to reduce the practice to theory.' of a method. It is undoubtedly true that in records of scientific investigations we seldom find the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1895 - 676 pages
...on some subjects much commoner, than true ones. The business of Inductive Logic is to provide lilies and models, (such as the Syllogism and its rules are...before any one sought to reduce the practice to theory. ' . . . The assailants of the Syllogism had also anticipated Dr. Whewell in the other branch of his... | |
| Noah Knowles Davis - Induction (Logic) - 1895 - 224 pages
...provide rules and models (such as the syllogism and its rules are for ratiocination) to which, if the inductive arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive,...any one sought to reduce the practice to theory." — Logic, p. 308. The Canons of Causation, as we have designated them, of the presbased, as just stated,... | |
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