 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...  A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive - Page 261by John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 600 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 648 pages
...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...accords with any of the most obvious facts, is the best to^begin with; because its consequences are the most easily traced. This rude hypothesis is then rudely... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...complicated and, at first sight, confused sets of appearances.* We have to begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...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 - Evolution - 1846 - 318 pages
...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...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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 624 pages
...begin by making any suppo* Philosophy of (ht Inductive Science», vol. u., pp. 441-6. sition, ev6n a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these diffbr from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption. The simplest supposition... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1850 - 616 pages
...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 - Intellect - 1850 - 522 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1850 - 496 pages
...set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false tfne, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and...phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself unravels any ccmplicated mass of evidence... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Psychology - 1857 - 612 pages
...sight, confused set of appearances, is necessarily tentative : we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow...The simplest supposition which accords with any of tho most obvious facts, is the best to begin with, because its consequences arc the most easily traced.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1857 - 528 pages
...appearances, is nccessarify tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to sec what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we leam what corrections to make in our supposition. Let any one watch the manner in which he himself... | |
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