 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 44 pages
...Mill's great theory. Induction is tho operation of tho mind by which we infer that what we know to bo true in a particular case or cases will be true in all cases which resomblo the former in certain assignable respects — what is true of certain individuals as a class... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 968 pages
...operation of the mind by which we infer that what wo know to be true in a particular case or cases, will bo true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects.' As it is strictly a process of inference from the known to the unknown, any process in which, as in... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 498 pages
...axiome, elle y conduit; nous ne la trouvons pas aucommenceI. Induction, then, is that operation of the mind, by which we infer that what we know to be true in a parlicular case or cases, will be true in ail cases which resemble lhe former in certain assignable... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...have observed.' And he says at p: 315 of the same work, ' Induction, then, is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...resemble the former in certain assignable respects.' And Dr. James M'Cosh, in his work, 'An Examination of Mr. John Stuart Mill's Philosophy, being a defence... | |
 | H. Coleman - 1870 - 156 pages
...by Mill as "the operation of discerning and proving general propositions," " as the operation of the mind, by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case, will be true in all cases which resemble the * See Appendix, NOTE I. former in certain assignable respects.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...constructed the theory of Induction. What, then, is Induction? ' Induction is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...in a particular case or cases, will be true in all eases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is the process... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 514 pages
...y conduit; nous ne la trouvonspas aucommence1. Induction, then, is that operation of the mind, fcy which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will be true in ail cases which resembîe Ihe former in certain assignabte respects. In other words, Induction is the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 496 pages
...cases which resemble thé former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is thé process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of thé whole class, or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at ail... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 166 pages
...which we * Induction, then^is that operation of thejnind, by •which we infer that what we knawTo be true in. a particular case or cases, will be true...former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Indiiction is the process by which we_ conclude that all men will die, from having observed that Peter,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1875 - 968 pages
...completely reversing the Aristotelian order in the dictum de omni et nullo, ' is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true...resemble the former in certain assignable respects.' As it is strictly a process of inference from the known to the unknown, any process in which, as in... | |
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Induction is that operation of the mind by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. 
