| Noah Knowles Davis - 1895 - 236 páginas
...discovering and proving general propositions." — Mill, Logic, p. 208. " Induction is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases will be true tn all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is... | |
| James Welton - 1896 - 374 páginas
...... is that operation of the mind, by which we infer that He defined u , , , . , . . , ... Induction what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will as 'discover"be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain p'^va["g "assignable respects.... | |
| John Albert Broadus - 1898 - 638 páginas
...description than a definition. Another statement of Mill is this: "Induction is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...resemble the former in certain assignable respects." Professor NK Davis2 defines: "Induction is an immediate synthetic inference generalizing from and beyond... | |
| John Watson - 1898 - 526 páginas
...it cannot be called an induction. What, then, is an induction? It is denned by Mill as the process by which we infer that what we know to be true in...resemble the former in certain assignable respects. The " resemblance " may be either (a) that of individuals belonging to a class, or (/<) that of the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 662 páginas
...engage. CHAPTER IL OF INDUCTIONS IMPROPERLY SO CALLED. § I. INDUCTION, then, IR that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...the former in certain assignable respects. In other worels, Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a... | |
| J. Welton - 1910 - 344 páginas
.... . . ' , ... Induction what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will as 'discoverbe true in all cases which resemble the former in certain..."assignable respects. In other words, Induction is the general " process by which we conclude that what is true of certain tfonV " individuals of a class... | |
| Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller - 1912 - 462 páginas
...the known to the unknown,' from ' what we hnow to be true in a particular case or cases ' to what ' will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects,' or as inferring from some instances to ' all instances of a certain class ; namely, in all which resemble... | |
| Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller - 1912 - 458 páginas
...proved.1 But the incom1 Mill defines induction as an inference 'from the known to the unknown,' from ' what we know to be true in a particular case or cases ' to what ' will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects, ' or... | |
| Roy Balmer Liddy - 1914 - 156 páginas
...of the word is evident. Mill, an ardent champion of induction, defines it as the "operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...resemble the former in certain assignable respects." 1 Now Socrates makes no attempt to reach a universal by summing up a number of particulars; his method... | |
| Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1914 - 692 páginas
...generalizations from Experience." Explain and examine this doctrine of Mill. 3. "Induction is the process by which we infer that what we know to be true in...resemble the former in certain assignable respects." How far is Mill's account of Induction a true one? 4. Estimate the significance of the Darwinian theory... | |
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