| William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...compounds to ingredients, and from motions to the causes producing them ; and, in general, from ertects to their causes ; and from particular causes to more...consists in assuming causes, discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phasnomena, proceeding from them, and proving the explanations."... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...occur from the phenomena, the conclusion may be pronounced generally : hut if at any time afterward any exception shall occur from experiments, it may...consists in assuming causes, discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 476 pages
...causes, and from particular causes to more geh'eraf ones; till the argument ends in the most geriefal. This is the method of analysis ; and that of synthesis,...consists in assuming causes, discovered and established as principles, and by tfeertif explaining the phenomena BToceerting from them, and proving the explanations.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1814 - 582 pages
...this way " of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; " and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in " general, from effects to...particular " causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the " most general. This is the method of analysis. And the " synthesis consists in assuming... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...more general ; and if no exception occur from phznomena, the conclusion may be pronounced generallv : but if, at any time afterwards, any exception shall...consists in assuming causes, discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phznomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations."... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 348 pages
...this way of analysis " we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from mo" tions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, from effects "to...particular causes to more general ones, " till the argument end in the most general. This is the method of " analysis. And the synthesis consists in assuming the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...this way of analysis we may proreed from compounds to ingredi" euts ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, " from effects to their causes ; and from particular cause« to more geneu ral ones, til) the argument end in the most general. This is the method ••... | |
| 1823 - 624 pages
...refers to an Intelligent Cause ; the Mineral Geologist, to a chemical menstruum. Newton proceeded ' from effects to their causes, * and from particular causes to more general ones, till the ar' gument ends in the most general.' Whereas the Mineral Geologists have never extended their analysis... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, • from effects...particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general. This is the method of analysis. And the synthesis consists in assuming the... | |
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