 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1909 - 556 pages
...strictly applying the principles of the inductive process of reasoning — by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of the whole class ; or that which is true at certain times, will be true under similar circumstances at all times — that medicine... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - Method (Philosophy) - 1912 - 474 pages
...certain assignable respects. In other words, induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of the whole class, or that which is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times. Induction is thus... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 pages
...drawn. Let us first consider simple induction. " Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times." * For example, the botanist observes in a dozen instances that... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Debates and debating - 1917 - 344 pages
...generally recognized, Induction and Deduction. Induction is "the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times." Or, what is true of the less general (particular) is true of... | |
 | James Samuel Knox - Sales personnel - 1917 - 364 pages
...to the universal." John Stuart Mill says: "Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class, is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times." It is "a process of demonstration in which a general truth... | |
 | James Samuel Knox - Sales personnel - 1921 - 410 pages
...to the universal." John Stuart Mill says : "Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class, is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times." It is "a process of demonstration in which a general truth... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - Logic - 1921 - 464 pages
...conterminous with generalisation, as when he states: "Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times"1 (ibid., bk. 3, ch. 2, § 1); but we do appreciate the fact... | |
 | George Allardice Riddell Baron Riddell - Psychology, Applied - 1922 - 212 pages
...laws from particular instances. "In other words, induction is a process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times" (Mill). Let us see how the child proceeds. Finding the blaze... | |
 | Paul Bertie Bull - Preaching - 1922 - 342 pages
...destroyed. 2. INDUCTION, a generalization from experience ; the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of the whole class. As this argument from experience is the method by which modern science has been built up, it is generally... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Debates and debating - 1925 - 344 pages
...generally recognized, Induction and Deduction. Induction is "the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true...or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times." Or, what is true of the less general (particular) is true of... | |
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INDUCTION, then, is that operation of the mind, by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is the process... 
