The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension... The Problem of Logic - Page 456by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 654 pages
...prevails, any more than those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the absence of any... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 648 pages
...received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range ojf our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the absence of any... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1850 - 616 pages
...planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must fee received not as a law of the universe, but of that...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which in the absence of any... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...prevails, any more than those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the absence of any... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...universally on our own planet. The uniformity in the SMccession of events, otherwise called the htw of causation, must be received not as a law of the...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which in the absence of any... | |
| James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as the law of the universe, but of that portion of it only...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases." I freely admit all this in regard to the order observable everywhere in our Cosmos ; there may or may... | |
| Essays - 1861 - 414 pages
...explain other worlds beyond, and the relation of the former to them ? 1 " The uniformity in the course of events, otherwise called the law of causation,...with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent oases."—See Mill's Logic, vol. ii. pp. 117, 11S. 8. Of course. W. Then your answer, " I do not need... | |
| Essays - 1861 - 394 pages
...not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our meana of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases."— See Mill's Logic, vol. ii. pp. 117, 118. 8. Of course. W. Then your answer, " I do not need them,"... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - Positivism - 1864 - 176 pages
...prevails, any more than those special ones which we have fourni to hold universally on our own planet. The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the absence of any... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - Positivism - 1864 - 178 pages
...those special ones which we have found to hold universally on our own planet. The uniformity in Ihe succession of events, otherwise called the law of...reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases. To extend it further is to make a supposition without evidence, and to which, in the absence of any... | |
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