| Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1858 - 244 pages
...by no causes within the sphere of our experience, we endeavour to recall the outstanding phenomenon to unity, by ascribing it to some cause or class to...says we are to admit no causes but such as are true (verge), he meant "to denounce the postulation of hypothetical facts as media of hypothetical explanation."... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...elsewhere says that " it has never perhaps been adequately en ounced. It should be thus expressed : — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed than are ntcesinry to account for the plmnomena."] — Am. Ed. nerely inclined to believe in the uniformity... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...elsewhere says that "it has never perhaps been adequately enounced. It should be thus expressed: — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed than are i tary to account for the phamomena."] —Am. Ed. _— merely inclined to believe in the uniformity... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1865 - 578 pages
..." never, perhaps, been adequately expressed ;" and he proposes the following expression for it : " Neither more " nor more onerous causes are to be assumed,...than are " necessary to account for the phenomena." This conception of some causes as " more onerous" to the general scheme of things than others, is a... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 368 pages
..."never, perhaps, been adequately expressed ; " and he proposes the following expression for it : " Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed,...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." This conception of some causes as " more onerous " to the general scheme of things than others, is... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 372 pages
..."never, perhaps, been adequately expressed ; " and he proposes the following expression for it : " Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed,...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." This conception of some causes as " more onerous " to the general scheme of things than others, is... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Deaf - 1866 - 1222 pages
...always virtually in force, never perhaps beeu adequately enounced. It should be thus expressed : — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phcenomena. — This rule thus falls naturally into two parts ; in the one, more, in the other, more... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...laudably anxious to apply his admirable law of parsimony, which he gives in the following terms : — " Neither more, nor more onerous causes, are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." But I venture to suggest that the law of sufficiency is as important a law as that of parsimony, and... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...laudably anxious to apply his admirable law of parsimony, which he gives in the following terms : — " Neither more, nor more onerous causes, are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." But I venture to suggest that the law of sufficiency is as important a law as that of parsimony, and... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1868 - 248 pages
...by no causes within the sphere of our experience, we endeavour to recall the outstanding phenomenon to unity, by ascribing it to some cause or class to...says we are to admit no causes but such as are true (verse), he meant "to denounce the postulation of hypothetical facts as media of hypothetical explanation."... | |
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