The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... Meaning and Nature of Induction 14 Grounds of Inductive Conclusions 16 Belief in the Uniformity of Nature 18 Antecedent Probability in Induction 21 Analogy the Ground of Antecedent Probability 25 • Force of Physical Analogies ...
... Meaning and Nature of Induction 14 Grounds of Inductive Conclusions 16 Belief in the Uniformity of Nature 18 Antecedent Probability in Induction 21 Analogy the Ground of Antecedent Probability 25 • Force of Physical Analogies ...
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... meaning , and endeavour to exemplify and elucidate the nature of our convictions and inferences , in these branches of knowledge ; the degree of certainty of which they are susceptible ; and the sources of failure and error to which we ...
... meaning , and endeavour to exemplify and elucidate the nature of our convictions and inferences , in these branches of knowledge ; the degree of certainty of which they are susceptible ; and the sources of failure and error to which we ...
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... Meaning and Nature of Induction . Ar the present day , so common is the use of the term " Inductive Philosophy , " that , it may be pre- sumed , there are few persons who have not at least some apprehension of the sort of investigation ...
... Meaning and Nature of Induction . Ar the present day , so common is the use of the term " Inductive Philosophy , " that , it may be pre- sumed , there are few persons who have not at least some apprehension of the sort of investigation ...
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... meaning to include specially the notion of a fair presumption of some relation , in virtue of which we can argue from the known to the unknown ; and infer that those cases which we do not see , are pro- bably connected with those which ...
... meaning to include specially the notion of a fair presumption of some relation , in virtue of which we can argue from the known to the unknown ; and infer that those cases which we do not see , are pro- bably connected with those which ...
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... include essentially the reference to analogy , and not barely to facts actually witnessed . Unless this be the case , indeed , their meaning would , in some cases , 32 EVIDENCE OF PHYSICAL TRUTH . Force of Physical Analogies.
... include essentially the reference to analogy , and not barely to facts actually witnessed . Unless this be the case , indeed , their meaning would , in some cases , 32 EVIDENCE OF PHYSICAL TRUTH . Force of Physical Analogies.
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