 Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a complete induction ; while in others, myriads of concurring instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever...  The Madras University Calendar - Page clxxxiiby University of Madras - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Benno Kohn - Causation - 1881 - 148 pages
...Stande ist auch nur einen einzigen allgemeinen Satz zu liefern '). Die emphatische Frage Mill's: nWhy is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for...way towards establishing an universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | James McCosh - Logic - 1881 - 252 pages
...shown that the sufficiency does not depend on the number of the cases. Mr. Mill puts the question : " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? " and declares that he who will answer this question is wiser than the ancients.... | |
 | James McCosh - Logic - 1881 - 272 pages
...shown that the sufficiency does not depend on the number of the cases. Mr. Mill puts the question : " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition?" and declares that he who will answer this question is wiser than the ancients.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Cocker - 1882 - 214 pages
...inferred without hesitation from a single instance— a universal proposition from a singular one. Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...without a single exception known or presumed, go such a little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 674 pages
...of tho earth not fully explored, he had caught and examined a crow, and had found it to be gray. i Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...myriads of concurring instances, without a single exCHAPTER IV. OF LAWS OF NATURE. § 1. IN the contemplation of that uniformity in the course of nature,,... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - Bible and science - 1882 - 418 pages
...explored he had caught and examined a 1 Logic, Book iii. chap. 3. crow, and had found it to be gray. Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...exception known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Psychology - 1882 - 452 pages
...instance— a universal proposition from u singular one. Why is a single instance, in some casei', sufficient for a complete induction, while in others,...without a single exception known or presumed, go such a little way towards establishing a universal proposition? Whoever can answer this question knows more... | |
 | Noah Porter - Intellect - 1883 - 714 pages
...men exist, their heads are not beneath their shoulders 1 Why Is a tangle instance, in (tome case-, sufficient for a complete Induction, while in others myriads of concurring instances, without a sinplc exception known or presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing an universal proposition?... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 660 pages
...the earth not fully explored he had caught and examined a crow, and had found it to be grey. Why ia a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a...way towards establishing an universal proposition? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | Noah Porter - Intellect - 1885 - 600 pages
...believing with assured confidence, that wherever men exist, their heads are not beneath their shoulders? Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...very little way towards establishing an universal proper sition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest... | |
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