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

For this, a simple enumeration of actions which such and such a man will do, is not enough.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

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 William Hazlitt

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 P. L. Jacob

But the forms which logicians introduce, and which proceed from simple enumeration, are dubitable, and proceed only upon admittance— Y. Mir.

From The Inconstant by George Farquhar

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 John Stuart Mill