The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Band 19

19th century 19th-century argued argument asserts atomic theory Bacon believe Boyle Boyle's Cartesian causes century chapter claim Comte Comte's conception concerned confirming instances conjectures consilience of inductions contemporary corpuscular corpuscularian deduce Descartes discussion doctrine empirical enumerative induction epistemic epistemology Essay ether evidence experience experimental explain facts false Glanvill Hartley Hartley's Herschel Hume Ibid important inductivists insisted Intellectual Powers Jevons knowledge laws LeSage LeSage's Locke Locke's logic of discovery London Mach Mach's mechanics method of hypothesis methodology motion natural philosophy Newton Newtonian observation Peirce Peirce's phenomena philosophy of science physics postulate predictions principles probability theory problem of induction quantitative induction reason refuted regulae Reid Reid's Robert Boyle rule scientific inference scientific method scientific theories scientists self-corrective sense statements stress suggest theoretical theory of scientific Thomas Reid tion tradition true truth University of Geneva unobservable entities verae causae wave theory Whewell Whewell's writings