 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1846 - 632 pages
...degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again, and uot only again but always." " The proposition, that the course of nature is uniform, is the 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 - 624 pages
...present and of the past. Whatever be the most proper mode of expressing it, the propositionthat tlie course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle, or general axiom, of Induction. It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive... | |
 | Medicine - 1851 - 592 pages
...apply such inductively raised laws as that of Wells, universally. According to Mill, " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the 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
...mathematics, are intuiti ve. He says : u 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. It would yet be a great error to consider this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive... | |
 | Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...iuppen again; and not only again, but as often as the same circumstances recur." " The proposition that the course of nature is uniform is the fundamental principle or general axiom of induction." Yet "this great generalization is itself founded on prior generalizations." " The course of nature... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 380 pages
...unquestioningly on such * His words are : " 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. It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 394 pages
...unquestioningly on such * His words arc : "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. It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Logic - 1859 - 180 pages
...induction in which the conclusion is demonstrably certain, this theory certainly fails ; for, Mr. Mills holds, 1st. That the course of nature is uniform,...That far from being the first induction we make, it its one of the last. 4th. That this principle must be considered as our warrant for all others. Then... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Logic - 1869 - 182 pages
...Mill's Theory of Induction. " "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. It would yet be a great error to oft'er this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive... | |
 | H. Coleman - 1870 - 156 pages
...future will resemble the past, so that whatever may be the proper mode of expressing it, the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle or axiom of the inductive process. Uniformity of the Course of Nature. — In contemplating, however,... | |
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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. It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation... 
