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

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 Carveth Read

The details or even a simple enumeration of the new applications of slate would, in order to be anywhere nearly complete, necessitate a lengthy article.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

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

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

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

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