Induction

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870 - Logic

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Contents

the Conservation of Force 9 Statement of the Law of Conservation
9
Forces distinguished as MOLAR and MOLECULAR The Molar are the Mechanical Forces
10
Heat Chemical Force Electricity Nerve Force Light
11
Proof of an Analysis 1 individual selfconsciousness
12
Conservation must be coupled with COLLOCATIONS
13
Collocation may be given elliptically as the Cause
14
Collocation expresses the modes of Potential Energy
15
Effect may mean a new arrangement or Collocation
16
17 The evidence for Causation and for Conservation is the same
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The Cause of an Effect is to be sought among the antecedent circumstances
18
An invariable antecedent is not necessarily the cause
19
Composition of Causes When several forces are conjoined the composite effect is the sum of the separate effects
20
Chemical Composition of Causes
39
CHAPTER VI
49
CHAPTER VII
67
CHAPTER VIII
76
Probability expresses a state of the mind and a situation
90
CHAPTER XI
102
Case of laws of remote connexion of Cause and Effect
111
The limits of Explanation are the limits of Induction
121
CHAPTER XIII
128
The reasonings of Geometry said to rest on hypotheses
134
Analogy in the peculiar sense defined
143
Allegations as to new species of plants or of animals
151
Transitive applications of words
175
The Second Requisite of Language is that there should be
177
The adaptation of existing names is possible with precautions
184
The same effect may have a PLURALITY OF CAUSES
186
The grades terminate in the SPECIES or Lowest Kind
190
Science
199

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