The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... Analogy the Ground of Antecedent Probability 25 Force of Physical Analogies Mathematical Laws 32 35 Induction in Natural History Induction in Geology . Combination of Inductions Caution in assuming Analogies 37 42 46 49 Rejection of ...
... Analogy the Ground of Antecedent Probability 25 Force of Physical Analogies Mathematical Laws 32 35 Induction in Natural History Induction in Geology . Combination of Inductions Caution in assuming Analogies 37 42 46 49 Rejection of ...
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... analogy , constancy , and uniformity , in the pheno- mena or appearances of nature , which are a foundation for general rules ; and these are a grammar for the understanding of nature , or that series of effects in the visible world ...
... analogy , constancy , and uniformity , in the pheno- mena or appearances of nature , which are a foundation for general rules ; and these are a grammar for the understanding of nature , or that series of effects in the visible world ...
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... analogy ; but , probably , imagines all things beyond the pre- cise extent of his observation to be destitute of any determinate order , and the course of events in * Reid and Turgot consider it an ultimate principle of the human mind ...
... analogy ; but , probably , imagines all things beyond the pre- cise extent of his observation to be destitute of any determinate order , and the course of events in * Reid and Turgot consider it an ultimate principle of the human mind ...
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... Analogy the Ground of antecedent Probability . THUS , then , it is manifest , that to possess some reasonable ground of antecedent probability , as a guide to our conclusion , is absolutely essential to physical induction . And we ...
... Analogy the Ground of antecedent Probability . THUS , then , it is manifest , that to possess some reasonable ground of antecedent probability , as a guide to our conclusion , is absolutely essential to physical induction . And we ...
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... ANALOGY between them . The success , then , with which induction may be carried on , depends on the just appreciation of such trains of analogy . This can only be attained by a habit of cautiously comparing our presumed gene- ralization ...
... ANALOGY between them . The success , then , with which induction may be carried on , depends on the just appreciation of such trains of analogy . This can only be attained by a habit of cautiously comparing our presumed gene- ralization ...
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