Metaphysical inquiry into the method, objects and result of ancient and modern philosophy / By Isaac Preston Cory.

  • Isaac Preston Cory
Date:
1833
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Credit: Metaphysical inquiry into the method, objects and result of ancient and modern philosophy / By Isaac Preston Cory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    looked, and to which such an inferior part in the advancement of science has been assigned, and that too with so much suspicious caution, appears to me to be the great instrument of generalization and invention, by which hypotheses are supplied, which are most commonly the subjects that call for the exercise of In- duction. By Induction, as usually un- - derstood, we make it a rule to exclude all hypotheses : first of all, we collect the experiments, and, having obtained these, we are next to examine them and com- pare them; we then reject the irrelative and negative, and conclude upon the afhrmatives that are left. By this means, says Lord Bacon, we question nature, and conclude upon her answers: yet I would venture to suggest, that, ninety- nine times out of a hundred, the Analogy or comparison precedes the collection of the experiments: some resemblance is observed, some hypothesis is started, which is the subject that is brought to
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