 | 1921 - 472 pagina’s
...those of the human imagination." (Ibid., bk. 3, ch. 14, §4.) And further on: "The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight...learn what corrections to make in our assumption." (Ibid., bk. 3, ch. 14, § 5.) Finally, in what seems his most explicit passage on the subject, Mill... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagina’s
...Mill recommends for other complicated and, at first sight, confused sets of appearances.* We have to begin by making any supposition, even a false one,...observing how these differ from the real phenomena. The simplest supposition which accords with the more obvious facts is the best to begin with, because... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1846 - 318 pagina’s
...: they are necessary steps in the progress to something more certain. . . . The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused...learn what corrections to make in our assumption. . . ' Some fact,' says M. Comte, ' is as yet little understood, or some law is unknown : we frame on... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1846 - 234 pagina’s
...: they are necessary steps in the progress to something more certain. . . . The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused...learn what corrections to make in our assumption. . . ' Some fact,' says M. Comte, ' is as yet little understood, or some law is unknown : we frame on... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 pagina’s
...less have been effected without largo temporary assistance from hypotheses. The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused...is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any suppo* Philosophy of (ht Inductive Science», vol. u., pp. 441-6. sition, ev6n a false one, to see... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 pagina’s
...less have ' been effected without large temporary assistance from hypotheses. The process of tracing regularity in any complicated and at first sight confused set of appearances, ie necessarily tentative : we begin by making any suppo* Phibtofhy qfOu Indwtivt Snença, t'ol. ii.,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 pagina’s
....less have been effected without large temporary assistance from hypotheses. The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight...phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any ctmplicated mass of evidence... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1850 - 616 pagina’s
...tentative : we begin by making any suppo* PlnhtofHy of tilt Inductive Scienca, vol. it, pp. 441-6. mtion, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...to make in our assumption. The simplest supposition wliirh accords with any of the most obvious facts, is the best to begin with ; because its consequences... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pagina’s
...less have been effected without large temporary assistance from hypotheses. The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight...tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false tfne, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 pagina’s
...from hypotheses. The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight jcpnfuscd, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin...phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any complicated mass of evidence... | |
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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... 
