simple enumeration

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noun

Logic, Philosophy.

1. a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.

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simple enumeration

The child can probably tell; but he must not on this account be accorded a pass on the descriptive level; he has already shown that his level is that of simple enumeration.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred

Nothing could be stronger than the simple enumeration and statement of the facts of Wallace's experience after he left Jim.

From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane

In collecting empirical laws from history, therefore, only very rough inductions can be hoped for, and we may have to be content with simple enumeration.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

The axioms and theorems of mathematics comprise the principal laws of resemblance 143 4. —and those of order in place, and rest on induction by simple enumeration 145 5.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart

A method of proof which, when used as directed, gives sometimes truth and sometimes falsehood—as the method of simple enumeration does—is obviously not a valid method, for validity demands invariable truth.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand