The Principles of Empirical Or Inductive LogicMacmillan, 1907 - 604 pàgines |
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actually admit adopted amongst answer antecedent appeal apply assigned attributes called categorical proposition cause cerned certainly chapter character characteristic coexistences common conceive conception connotation consequences considered convenient copula corresponding course dealing definition denotation difficulty discussion distinction doctrine doubt elements enquiry example existence existential propositions expression fact familiar Formal Logic former ground Herbert Spencer hypothetical indicated individual Induction inductive inference Inductive Logic inference insist instance interpretation involved kind language lative latter Law of Causation Leibnitz Logic logicians meaning mental merely Mill mind natural kind nature notice notion objects observation ourselves phenomena popular postulate practical precise predicate present principle proper names proposition purpose question reader reason recognized reference regarded respect seems sense sequence simple speaking stand statement supposed syllogism Symbolic Logic symbols term things thought tion true logical uniformity Uniformity of Nature universal proposition whilst whole words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 4 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Pàgina 593 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law ; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws ; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate.
Pàgina 434 - If tWO or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstances in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Pàgina 370 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths.
Pàgina 54 - What, then, is the conclusion of the whole matter? A simple one; though, it must be confessed, pretty remote from the common theories of philosophy. All belief of matter of fact or real existence is derived merely from some object, present to the memory or senses, and a customary conjunction between that and some other object.
Pàgina 288 - A sign is necessary, to give stability to our intellectual progress, — to establish each step in our advance as a new starting-point for our advance to another beyond. A country may be overrun by an armed host, but it is only conquered by the establishment of fortresses. Words are the fortresses of thought. They enable us to realize our dominion over what we have already overrun in thought; to make every intellectual conquest the basis of operations for others still beyond.
Pàgina 398 - It is a bitter thought how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
Pàgina 371 - By 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 their causes ; and from 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 causes discovered, and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
Pàgina 131 - When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact ? the proper answer seems to be, that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. When again it is asked, What is the foundation of all our reasonings and conclusions concerning that relation ? it may be replied in one word, Experience.
Pàgina 40 - A dragon is a serpent breathing flame: the word means that. The tacit assumption, indeed, (if there were any such understood assertion), of the existence of an object with properties corresponding to the definition, would, in the present instance, be false. Out of this definition we may carve the premises of the following syllogism: A dragon is a thing which breathes flame: A dragon is a serpent: From which the conclusion is, Therefore some serpent or serpents breathe flame...