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
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1890 - 498 pages
...caught and examined a crow, and had found it to be grey." What is the explanation of this difference? " 'Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...single exception known or presumed, go such a very liltle way towards establishing a universal proposition?" The solution is to be sought in the extreme... | |
| Noah Porter - Intellect - 1890 - 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...instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go guch a very little way towards establishing an universal proposition 1 Whoever can answer this question... | |
| 1891 - 718 pages
...spheres or circles " were arrived at. 5. Consider why it is that a single instance, in some cases, is sufficient for a complete induction, while in others...concurring instances, without a single exception, go a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition. (3. Discuss the question whether... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1893 - 496 pages
...caught and examined a crow, and had found it to be grey." What is the explanation of this difference? " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? " The solution is to be sought in the extreme complexity of the conditions... | |
| Paul Carus - Philosophy - 1893 - 254 pages
...shortest distance between two points, we do not doubt to be true even in the region of the fixed stars. "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... | |
| William Gay Ballantine - Philosophy - 1896 - 202 pages
...of the earth not fully explored, he had caught and examined a crow, and had found it to be gray. " Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...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 Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 320 pages
...impressions, that is — the firmer the association, the livelier the expectation. But "why," asks Mill, " is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition? Whoever can answer this question," he truly says, "knows more of the philosophy... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1900 - 676 pages
...region of the earth not fully explored, he had caught and examined a 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... | |
| Joseph William Andrew Hickson - Causation - 1900 - 60 pages
...aufgeworfen, die Hume nur gestreift hatte. „Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient for a comprete induction, while in others myriads of concurring instances without a single exception known or presuraed go such a very little way toward establishing a universal proposition?" Und er fügt hinzu:... | |
| Philosophy - 1901 - 542 pages
...induktiven Wissenschaften hat J. ST. MILL die Frage wieder aufgeworfen, die HUME nur gestreift hatte. „Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...exception known or presumed go such a very little way toward establishing a universal proposition? Und er fügt hinzu: „Whoever can answer this question... | |
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