colligation
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colligations
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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 George Jacob Holyoake
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 Herbert Spencer
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 W. (William) Stebbing
The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
As a matter of fact, we have ideas that are not copies of any one impression, but a binding together, colligation, or intellection of several impressions.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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