colligation
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Dr. Whewell contends that, besides the sum of the facts, colligation introduces, as a principle of connection, a conception of the mind not existing in the facts.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
We have evidence collected in proof of these dogmas; by and by a colligation of facts in antagonism with them; and eventually a consequent modification.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
The colligation and classification of facts, then, we may regard as the two first steps, which are to be taken in the attainment of truth.'*
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
But colligation simply sums up the facts observed, as seen under a new point of view.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
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