simple enumeration

American  

noun

Logic, Philosophy.

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

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Example Sentences

Yet such a simple enumeration fails to get at the danger.

From The Guardian

According to Mill, the law of causation is proved by an admittedly fallible process called “induction by simple enumeration.”

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Some such principle as this is required if the method of simple enumeration is to be valid.

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