 I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning: I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.  Popular Science Monthly - Page 2821903Full view - About this book
 | 1921 - 472 pages
...in a letter to John Fiske: 'I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning; I must begin with a good body of facts, and not from principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please.'" (Frank... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1888 - 464 pages
...reasons for such conclusions. I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning : I must begin with...(in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then * ' Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy,' 2 vols. 8vo. 1874. VOL. III. O as much deduction as you please.... | |
 | 1889 - 514 pages
...(vol. ii. p. 371), he says : " I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning. I must begin with...fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please." These quotations are sufficient to show that the position of his mind, with reference to religion,... | |
 | 1889 - 782 pages
...stated. " I find," writes Darwin, "that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning : I must begin with a good body of facts and from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pages
...1874 he writes (iii. 193): "I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning : I must begin with a good body of facts — and then as much deduction as you please." He had already confessed in 1872, "I know not why, but I never... | |
 | Frank Cramer - 1896 - 246 pages
...in a letter to John Fiske, " I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning; I must begin with a good body of facts, and not from principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please." 2 Now... | |
 | John Spencer Clark - 1917 - 600 pages
...reasons for such conclusions. I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning: I must begin with...that such parts of H. Spencer as I have read with 60 Letter from Darwin care impress my mind with the idea of his inexhaustible wealth of suggestion,... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - 1921 - 144 pages
...of his own work he remarked: " I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning. I must begin with...fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please" (to John Make, December 8, 1874). As he remarks elsewhere: " I believe the cause to lie in the frequency... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 pages
...in a letter to John Fiske: 'I find that my mind is so fixed by the inductive method, that I cannot appreciate deductive reasoning; I must begin with a good body of facts, and not from principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please." (Frank... | |
 | John William Robertson Scott - 1925 - 264 pages
...generous mind and patriotic heart. Je n'impose rien, J'expose. 'I must begin,' said Darwin, 'with a great body of facts, and not from a principle (in which...fallacy), and then as much deduction as you please.' 'Thus,' Cobbett once wrote, 'have I led you about the country. All sorts of things have I talked of,... | |
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