...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 necessary to account for the phenomena."] —Am. Ed. merely inclined to believe in the uniformity of nature's operations. [But apart from all...

...resort to an hypothesis" — says Sir W. Hamilton38) — is the "Law of Parcimony", which implies that "neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed than are necessary to account for the phaenomena". And the signification of the expression "more onerous", for the particular 38) Appendix...

...merest psychologic guess. It is true that entities are not to be multiplied in vain. It is true that neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed than are necessary to account for the phenomena. That has been the language of philosophers from Hamilton to Occam. But this so-called law of parcimony...

...expresses Occam's canon in the more complete and adequate form : — Neither more, nor more onerous, atuses are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phenomena. NOTE IV On the Vitality of Seeds (p. 338) THE determination of the maximum period during which seeds...

...cause for variations. If we seek a further cause we violate the scientific principle of parsimony. " Neither more, nor more onerous causes are to be assumed,...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." 80. We leave this very important subject for the present. At this stage it cannot receive adequate...

...(LoND.) 1851 EXHIBITION SCHOLAR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON AND CE KENNETH MEES, D.Sc. (LOND.) ' Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed,...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." — WILLIAM OF OCCAM. OF THE UIMIVER,?. r> . o *%iiOr. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW,...

...(LOND.) 1851 EXHIBITION SCHOLAR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON AND CE KENNETH MEES, D.Sc. (LoND.) " Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phenomena."—WILLIAM OF OCCAM. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY,...

...unreasoning faith. Sir William Hamilton expresses Occam's canon in the more complete and adequate form : — Neither more, nor more onerous, causes are to be assumed than are necessary to account for the phenomena. NOTE IV AR Wallace on Matter (p. 274) PERHAPS a maximum of confusion between our perceptions and conceptions...

...facts. The true intent of Occam's rule is given in Sir William Hamilton's 10 paraphrase of it, — "Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed than are necessary to account for the phenomena."11 The rule thus leaves a place, and often a large place, for mental construction; but it...

...mentioned in this connection. Hamilton says that the Law of Parcimony should be expressed as follows : "Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." Then he continues : "This phasis of the law has long been fully promulgated. Every condition of any...