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

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

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

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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 Hazlitt, William

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

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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