simple enumeration

noun

, Logic, Philosophy.

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

Example Sentences

In this case we proceed by simple generalization or simple enumeration.

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Their simple enumeration is an argument against this pretension.

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It is true that in the course of our observations we do perform an induction by simple enumeration.

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In the preceding example, synonymous parallelism passes into simple enumeration.

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I shall, therefore, content myself with giving little more than a simple enumeration of their names.

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