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... never to be admitted till every special case that can come under it has been experimentally tested . If the above example is a syllogism , ( and others of a similar kind might be endlessly multiplied , ) there are syllogisms in which ...
... never to be admitted till every special case that can come under it has been experimentally tested . If the above example is a syllogism , ( and others of a similar kind might be endlessly multiplied , ) there are syllogisms in which ...
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... never do . Will Mr. Mill explain the contradiction ? And what are we to understand by feigning a generalization to be exactly true ? How can there be truth without reality , either in nature or in our conceptions ? Where is the standard ...
... never do . Will Mr. Mill explain the contradiction ? And what are we to understand by feigning a generalization to be exactly true ? How can there be truth without reality , either in nature or in our conceptions ? Where is the standard ...
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... never in any instance seen or thought of them sepa- rately , there is , by the primary law of association , an increasing difficulty , which in the end becomes insuperable , of conceiving the two things apart . ' ( p . 314. ) This ...
... never in any instance seen or thought of them sepa- rately , there is , by the primary law of association , an increasing difficulty , which in the end becomes insuperable , of conceiving the two things apart . ' ( p . 314. ) This ...
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... never create truth ; they can only extract it . So that , when general truths are inferred from individual instances , so much of the inference as is not contained in the individual facts themselves must be derived from truths ...
... never create truth ; they can only extract it . So that , when general truths are inferred from individual instances , so much of the inference as is not contained in the individual facts themselves must be derived from truths ...
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... never be perfectly certain that we have discovered all that set of antecedents which con- jointly make up the cause of an effect , notwithstanding the universality and certainty of the law of causation , induction can never establish ...
... never be perfectly certain that we have discovered all that set of antecedents which con- jointly make up the cause of an effect , notwithstanding the universality and certainty of the law of causation , induction can never establish ...
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Seite 105 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Seite 371 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness...
Seite 371 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
Seite 19 - It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal...
Seite 84 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Seite 3 - is the science of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence; both the process itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other intellectual operations in so far as auxiliary to this.
Seite 6 - A nonconnotative term is one which signifies a subject only, or an attribute only. A connotative term is one which denotes a subject, and implies an attribute. By a subject is here meant anything which possesses attributes. Thus John, or London, or England, are names which signify a subject only.
Seite 98 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites...
Seite 19 - That, in short, no reasoning from generals to particulars can, as such, prove anything, since from a general principle we cannot infer any particulars, but those which the principle itself assumes as known.
Seite 101 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.