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" When by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances, but differing in others, and all attended •with the same result, a philosopher connects, as a general law of nature, the event with its physical cause, he is said to proceed according... "
A New Dictionary of the English Language - Page 419
by Charles Richardson - 1839 - 886 pages
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1814 - 582 pages
...simplest combination of indispensable conditions, as the physical cause of the event. When by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...said to proceed according to the method of induction. This, at least, appears to me to be the idea which, in general, Bacon himself annexes to the phrase*;...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 560 pages
...event. * Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. I. Chap. v. Part it Sect. i. VV'iicn by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...philosopher connects, as a general law of nature, the event wjth its physical cause, he is said to proceed according, to the method of induction This, at least,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 12

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...combine together all the various circumstances which were united in our former trials. When, by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...to proceed according to the method of induction.' — 330. To this explanation of the nature of the inductive process we have nothing to object, but...
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Elements of Logick: Or, A Summary of the General Principles and Different ...

Levi Hedge - Logic - 1816 - 220 pages
...agreeing in some cir" cumstances, but differing in others, " and all attended with the same re" suit, a philosopher connects, as a gen"eral law of nature,...event with its " physical cause, he is said to proceed k' according to the method of indiic« turn."* 101. Inductive conclusions will amount to moral certainty,...
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Elements of Logick: Or A Summary of the General Principles and Different ...

Levi Hedge - Logic - 1816 - 234 pages
...differing in others, " and all attended with the same re" suit, a philosopher connects, as a gen" eral law of nature, the event with its " physical cause,...he is said to proceed "according to the method of induc101. Inductive conclusions will amount to moral certainty, whenever our experience has been uniform,...
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Principles of Christian Evidence Illustrated: By an Examination of Arguments ...

Duncan Mearns - Apologetics - 1818 - 212 pages
...stands opposed to the inductive principle. ' When by ' comparing' says Mr Stewart, ' a number of ' eases agreeing in some circumstances, but ' differing in...with the ' same result, a philosopher connects, as a ge. ' neral law of nature, the event with tbephysi* ' cal cause, he is said to proceed according to...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 348 pages
...simplest combination of indispensable conditions, as the physical cause of the event. When by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...said to proceed according to the method of induction. This, at least, appears to me to be the idea which, io general, Bacon himself annexes to the phrase...
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Elements of Logick: Or, A Summary of the General Principles and Different ...

Levi Hedge - Logic - 1821 - 188 pages
...conjoined." " When, by thus comparing a number of ea" ses, agreeing in some circumstances, but dif" fering in others, and all attended with the " same result, a philosopher connects, as a gen" eral law of nature, the event with its physical " cause, he is said to proceed according to the...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...simplest combination of indispensable conditions, as the physical cause of the event. When by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...differing in others, and all attended with the same resuh, a philosopher connects, as a general law of nature, the event with Its physical cause, he is...
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Lectures on Geology: Being Outlines of the Science

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer - Geology - 1825 - 380 pages
...present day, through a succession of ages. By induction is to be understood that process, by which, upon comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances,...law of Nature, the event with its physical cause. — According to Bacon "Inductio, quae ad inventionem et demonstrationem scientiarum et art mm erit...
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