A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, Band 2J.W. Parker, 1856 - 4 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according affirm analogy antecedent applied approximate argument arising ascer ascertained assertion believe bodies casual chance character circumstances coincidence collocation colour common complete induction conception conclusion connexion connotation considered crows deduction degree depends derivative law doctrine doctrine of chances earth effect ellipse empirical law equal error event evidence example exist experience fact fallacy frequency ground hypothesis idea induction inference inquiry kind language law of causation laws of nature limits luminiferous ether manner meaning merely Method Method of Agreement Method of Difference mind mode motion objects observed occur particular persons pheno phenomena phenomenon planets precise principle probability produced proportion proposition proved quantity question ratiocination reason recognised resemblance respecting result rience scientific sensations solar system species substances succession sufficient supposed supposition term theory things throws tion true truth ultimate laws ultimate properties uniformities of coexistence universal universal proposition vera causa words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 310 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 486 - It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Seite 409 - ... law of causality applies in the same strict sense to human actions as to other phenomena, is the celebrated controversy concerning the freedom of the will; which, from at least as far back as the time of Pelagius, has divided both the philosophical and the religious world. The affirmative opinion is commonly called the doctrine of Necessity, as asserting human volitions and actions to be necessary and inevitable.
Seite 16 - The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
Seite 103 - ... its manifestations is implicitly obedient to the action of fixed causes. I do not believe that there is now one object or event in all our experience of nature, within the bounds of the solar system at least, which has not either been ascertained by direct observation to follow laws of its own, or been proved to be closely similar to objects and events which, in more familiar manifestations, or on a more limited scale, follow strict laws...
Seite 265 - ... about it, deviating from it in various directions and different degrees. Thus a genus may consist of several species which approach very near the type, and of which the claim to a place with it is obvious; while there may...
Seite 399 - ... which he perhaps holds in abhorrence. Thus, when in a discussion one party vindicates, on the ground of general expediency, a particular instance of resistance to Government in a case of intolerable oppression, the opponent may gravely maintain that " we ought not to do evil that good may come:" a proposition which of course had never been denied, the point in dispute being " whether resistance in this particular case were doing evil or not.
Seite 518 - And thus, the state of the speculative faculties, the character of the propositions assented to by the intellect, essentially determines the moral and political state of the community, as we have already seen that it determines the physical.
Seite 458 - Human beings in society have no properties but those which are derived from, and may be resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual man.
Seite 458 - The laws of the phenomena of society are, and can be. nothing but the laws of the actions and passions of human beings united together in the social state. Men, however, in a state of society are still men; their actions and passions are obedient to the laws of individual human nature.