 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1846 - 632 pages
...a sufficient degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again, and uot only again but always." " The proposition, that the course of nature is uniform,...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction ;" — " unless it were true, all other inductions,'' as he says in another place, " would be fallacious."... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...tho whole region of the future; but also the vastly greater portion of the present and of the past. Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...Induction. It would yet be a great error to offer this largo generalization as any explanation of the inductive process. On the contrary, I hold it to be... | |
 | Medicine - 1851 - 592 pages
...enables us to apply such inductively raised laws as that of Wells, universally. According to Mill, " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform,...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction." And if it be asked how these ideas of the essential connexions of properties are derived, I answer... | |
 | Charles Kittredge True - Logic - 1860 - 188 pages
...that any universal principles, even the first principles of mathematics, are intuiti ve. He says : u Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it,...axiom of induction. It would yet be a great error to consider this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive process. On the contrary, I... | |
 | Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...of circumstances, iuppen again; and not only again, but as often as the same circumstances recur." " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform...fundamental principle or general axiom of induction." Yet "this great generalization is itself founded on prior generalizations." " The course of nature... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Science - 1866 - 972 pages
...that source, the main question of the science of logic is the enquiry, What is induction ? Although the proposition that, the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle of induction, it would yet be a great error to offer this large generalisation as any explanation of... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 968 pages
...that source, the main question of the science of logic is the enquiry, What is induction? Although the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle of induction, it would yet be a great error to offer this large generalisation as any explanation of... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Logic - 1869 - 180 pages
...which the conclusion is demonstrably certain, this theory certainly fails ; for, Mr. Mill holds, 1st. That the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle or general axiom of Induction. 2d. That this principle is itself an induction of by no means the most obvious kind. 3d. That far from... | |
 | H. Coleman - 1870 - 156 pages
...laws, or our intuitive conviction that the future will resemble the past, so that whatever may be the proper mode of expressing it, the proposition that...nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle or axiom of the inductive process. Uniformity of the Course of Nature. — In contemplating, however,... | |
 | Noah Porter - Intellect - 1871 - 592 pages
...applied by the mind. Mill concedes that Induction itself has axioms. He says, " whatever be the best way of expressing it, the proposition that the course...fundamental principle, or general axiom of Induction." The proposition that "the course of nature is uniform" must mean that the unknown uniformities of succession... | |
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Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it, the proposition that the course of nature is uniform is the fundamental principle, or general axiom, of Induction. 
