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

No action was taken, however, upon the more important recommendation that midway between two censuses a simple enumeration by sex and age should be effected.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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 Earle, John

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

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

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 Mill, John Stuart

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 Read, Carveth