 | 1864 - 822 pages
...hypothesis is bound to explain, or at least, not be inconsistent with, the whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single one of these facts which can be shewn to be inconsistent with the hypothesis, the hypothesis falls to tlie ground, — it is worth... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1916 - 762 pages
...up by them, we may deal in the first place with the case of fructose. When fructose is dissolved * " Every hypothesis is bound to explain, or, at any rate, not to be inconsistent with, tlio whole of tho facts' it professes to account for ; and if there is a single one of these faets... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 170 pages
...hypothesis is bound to explain, or, at any rate, not be inconsistent with, the whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single...which can be shown to be inconsistent with (I do not merely mean inexplicable by, but contrary to,) the hypothesis, the hypothesis falls to the ground,... | |
 | 1864 - 746 pages
...species, when crossed one with another. It matters not one " whit whether it exists only in a single case. Every hypothesis is " bound to explain, or, at any...to be inconsistent with., the " whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a " single one of these facts which can be shown... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1878 - 300 pages
...that they might as well abandon the wave-hypothesis at once. His words are big with meaning: — " Every hypothesis is bound to explain, or at any rate not to be inconsistent with,the whole of the facts it professes to account for; and if there is a iingle one of these facts... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...meaning: — " Every hypothesis it bound to explain, or at any rate not to be inconsistent ieith,the whole of the facts it professes to account for; and...which can be shown to be inconsistent with (I do not merely mean inexplicable by, * Since this argument was written, and mostly in type, Prtfessor Robert... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - 546 pages
...that they might as well abandon the wave-hypothesis at once. His words are big with meaning: — " Every hypothesis is bound to explain, or at any rate not to be inconsistent with,the whole of the facts it professes to account for; and if there is a single one of these facts... | |
 | 1884 - 400 pages
...permit, and I question whether any more argument can be necessary; for Prof. Huxley* has said that every hypothesis is bound to explain, or at any rate not to be incousietent with, the whole of the facts it professes to account for; and if there is a single one... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - 1886 - 394 pages
...hypothesis is bound to explain, or at any rate not be inconsistent with rthe whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single...can be shown to be inconsistent •with (I do not merely mean inexplicable by, but contrary to) the hypothesis, the hypothesis falls to the 1 JB Meyer,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...hypothesis is bound to explain, or, at any rale, not be inconsistent with, the whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single...which can be shown to be inconsistent with (I do not merely mean inexplicable hi', but contrary lo) the hypothesis, the hypothesis falls to the ground ;... | |
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Every hypothesis is bound to explain, or, at any rate, not be inconsistent with, the whole of the facts which it professes to account for ; and if there is a single one of these facts which can be shown to be inconsistent with (I do not merely mean inexplicable... 
