| William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...mathematics, so in natural history, the investigation of difficult things, by way of analysis, ought always to precede the method of composition. This analysis...drawing general conclusions from them by induction (ie reasoning from the analogy of things by natural consequence) and admitting no objections araimt... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...mathematics, so in natural history, the investigation of difficult things, by way of analysis, ought always to precede the method of composition. This analysis...drawing general conclusions from them by induction (¡. e. reasoning from the analogy of tilings by natnral consequence) and admitting no objections against... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...mathematics, so in natural history, the investigation of difficult things, by way of analysis, ought always to precede the method of composition. This analysis...drawing general conclusions from them by induction (ie reasoning from the analogy of things by natural consequence), and admitting no objections against... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...Philosophy, the investigation " of difficult things by the method of Analysis, ought ever to pre" cede the method of Composition. This analysis consists...making experiments and observations, and in drawing con" elusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...is evident, that as in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition, or the synthesis. For, in any other way, we can never be sure that we assume the principles which really... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pages
...investigation nf difficult things, by way of analysis, ought always to precede the method of composition. T!i:> analysis consists in making experiments and observations,...drawing general conclusions from them by induction, (is reasoning from the analogy of things by natural consequence) and admitting no objections against... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...evi" dent, that as in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the inves" tigation o< difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to " precede the method of composition, or the synthesis. For, in " any other way, we can never be sure that we assume the princi" pies which... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...Newton, in his Opticks, as quoted by Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary, defines the " analysis to consist in making experiments and observations, and in drawing...them by induction, and admitting of no objections, but such as are taken from experiments or other certain truths." The same author makes synthesis to... | |
| Granville Penn - 1822 - 480 pages
...experiments and observations, and " in drawing general conclusions from them " by induction; and in admitting no objections " against the conclusions, but such as are taken " from experiments, or other certain truths1." There were, then, some certain truths, which had always authority, in Newton's philosophy,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...o/ Composition. This an" :I|\.M- consists in making experiments and observations, and in draw" ing conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections " against the conclusion.», but such as are taken from experiments, or '* rather certain truths For hypotheses are... | |
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