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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Example Sentences

From this simple enumeration, it can easily be understood what a useless task we should impose upon ourselves were we merely to enter upon so wide and difficult a subject.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.

Their simple enumeration is an argument against the pretension of State Rights.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

Thus, if simple enumeration is to be rendered valid, it must not be stated as Mill states it.

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

For simple enumeration of the sequence A-p leaves open the possibility that, besides A, there is always some other antecedent of p, say X; and then X may be the cause of p.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

Another instance, which is certainly very happy as an example of the simple enumeration of a number of particulars, is Salisbury's remonstrance against the second crowning of the king.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William