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

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 Jacob, P. L.

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

Many an argument from simple enumeration may thus be turned into an induction of greater plausibility according to the Canon of Agreement.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

Nothing could be stronger than the simple enumeration and statement of the facts of Wallace's experience after he left Jim.

From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane

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

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David