 How is it to be justified by the results? As any other assumption is justified — by ascertaining that all the conclusions deducible from it correspond with the facts as directly observed — by showing the agreement between the experiences it leads...  First Principles - Page 140by Herbert Spencer - 1896 - 612 pagesFull view - About this book
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...results? As any other assumption is justified — by ascertaining that all the conclusions deduciblo from it, correspond with the facts as directly observed...showing its entire congruity with all other beliefs. If wo suppose that a mass which has a certain colour and lustre is the ^substance called gold, how do... | |
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...an interpretation of the process of things as it presents itself to our limited consciousness. . . . There is no mode of establishing the validity of any...showing its entire congruity with all other beliefs,' — Herbert Spencer. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE, MODES OF ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATIONS... | |
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...results? As any other assumption is justified — by ascertaining that all the conclusions deducible from it correspond with the facts as directly observed...showing its entire congruity with all other beliefs." Proceeding avowedly and rigorously on this principle, I have next inquired what is the fundamental... | |
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...the conclusions deducible from it, correspond with the facts as directly observed — by showing tho agreement between the experiences it leads us to anticipate,...substance called gold, how do we proceed to prove tho hypothesis that it is gold ? Wo represent to ourselves certain other impressions which gold produces... | |
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...be separated from the rest without mental dissolution, must be assumed as true provisionally;' that there is no mode of establishing the validity of any...showing its entire congruity with all other beliefs, and that ' Philosophy, compelled to make those fundamental assumptions without which thought is impossible,... | |
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...be separated from the rest without mental dissolution, must be assumed as true provisionally;' that there is no mode of establishing the validity of any...showing its entire congruity with all other beliefs, and that ' Philosophy, compelled to make those fundamental assumptions without which thought is impossible,... | |
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...ascertaining that all the conclusions deducible from it, correspond with the facts as directly observed—by showing the agreement between the experiences it leads...experiences. There is no mode of establishing the validity of nny belief except that of showmg its entire congruity with all other beliefs. If we suppose that a... | |
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