 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 toward establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever...  Inductive Logic - Pàgina 39per William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 174 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 593 pàgines
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...establishing an universal proposition ? Whoever can answer tin's question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and has solved... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 593 pàgines
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...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
...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1850 - 593 pàgines
...crows are black, would be deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of one unexceptionable witness who should...way towards establishing an universal proposition 1 Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 600 pàgines
...deemed a sufficient presumption of the truth of the proposition, to outweigh the testimony of onft unexceptionable witness who should affirm that in...way towards establishing an universal proposition 1 Whoever can answer this question knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859
...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 - 176 pàgines
...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 - 673 pàgines
...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...towards establishing an universal proposition ? "Whoever con answer this question knows moro of tho philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and... | |
 | James McCosh - 1870 - 212 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | 1871
...199, (Spencer's ed. Boston, 1866). f Ham. Metaphysics, pp. 72, 510. Logic, p. 451. (Boston, 1865.) witness who should affirm that in some region of the...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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