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 - Página clxxxiipor University of Madras - 1873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 páginas
...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...presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing anun.versal proposition 1 Whoover can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than... | |
| 1848 - 544 páginas
...Generalization does not, indeed, seem to satisfy even our author, in its practical working. " Why," says he, " is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for...exception, known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing an universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy... | |
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| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859 - 140 páginas
...enumerationem ; lud in what consists the characteristic distinction between it and the Baconian method ? Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Can you give any example of a general... | |
| Charles Kittredge True - 1860 - 188 páginas
...illuminations down the chasms of a past eternity. And is not here the answer to Mr. Mill's earn est inquiry: " Why is a single instance in some cases sufficient...without a single exception, known or presumed, go so little way toward establishing a universal proposition ?" The diiference in the cases is that the... | |
| Noah Porter - 1869 - 752 páginas
...believing with assured confidence, that wherever men exist, tlioir heads are not beneath their shoulders Î Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...way towards establishing an universal proposition ? "Whoever con answer this question knows moro of tho philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,... | |
| James McCosh - 1870 - 252 páginas
...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.... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 592 páginas
...believing with assured confidence, that wherever men exist, their heads are not beneath their shoulders? 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,... | |
| 1871 - 774 páginas
...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 an universal proposition? Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy... | |
| 1871 - 800 páginas
...believing, with assured confidence, that whereever men exist their heads are not beneath their shoulders ? Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient...in others myriads of concurring instances, without an exception known or presumed, go a very little way in establishing an universal proposition f ' (Logic,... | |
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