The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... principles in the most perspicuous manner which the nature of the subject would admit , and to carry on the discussion in such a form as would be suitable to the general reader . No One further remark must be added . In some of the late ...
... principles in the most perspicuous manner which the nature of the subject would admit , and to carry on the discussion in such a form as would be suitable to the general reader . No One further remark must be added . In some of the late ...
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... principles of the inquiry . And in a searching and inquiring age , it becomes more peculiarly needful to analyze the nature of our evidence ; and to be able , with that confidence which belongs to a good and just cause , to meet any ...
... principles of the inquiry . And in a searching and inquiring age , it becomes more peculiarly needful to analyze the nature of our evidence ; and to be able , with that confidence which belongs to a good and just cause , to meet any ...
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... principles , at once more correct and rational , and better suited to the limited range of the human faculties . By the humble unpretending path of the inductive method , all the great triumphs of physical discovery have been achieved ...
... principles , at once more correct and rational , and better suited to the limited range of the human faculties . By the humble unpretending path of the inductive method , all the great triumphs of physical discovery have been achieved ...
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... principles to natural laws and pheno- mena : the inductive , on the contrary , ascends from observed phenomena to general laws and abstract principles . In its more limited sense , however , " induction " is understood to signify the ...
... principles to natural laws and pheno- mena : the inductive , on the contrary , ascends from observed phenomena to general laws and abstract principles . In its more limited sense , however , " induction " is understood to signify the ...
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... principle to which the existence of such a persuasion may be traced ? -Can we analyse it up to any rational ground of belief ? This is a most important point of our inquiry ; and to it our attention must next be directed . ( See Note A ...
... principle to which the existence of such a persuasion may be traced ? -Can we analyse it up to any rational ground of belief ? This is a most important point of our inquiry ; and to it our attention must next be directed . ( See Note A ...
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