 | Francis Bacon - 1831 - 474 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 478 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...proper rejections and exclusions, and then conclude for tne affirmative after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now this has not been done, or even... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now, this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now, this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...in short, every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger from one contradictory instance." — Nov. Organ., book i, aph. 105. To show how utterly puerile, in the estimation of a real Baconian,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 348 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 pages
...in short every kind of axioms. The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger...after collecting a sufficient number of negatives. Now, this has not been done, or even attempted, except perhaps by Plato, who certainly uses this form... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...It is a test of true theories not only to account for, but to predict phaenomena.—Dr Whewell. 196. A really useful induction for the discovery and demonstration...affirmative after collecting a sufficient number of negatives.—Bacon. 197. That which is most useful in practice is most correct in theory.—Bacon.... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...It is a test of true theories not only to account for, but to predict phsenomena.—Dr Wkewell. 196. A really useful induction for the discovery and demonstration...affirmative after collecting a sufficient number of negatives.—Bacon. 197. That which is most useful in practice is most correct in theory.—Bacon.... | |
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The induction which proceeds by simple enumeration is puerile, leads to uncertain conclusions, and is exposed to danger from one contradictory instance, deciding generally from too small a number of facts, and those only the most obvious. But a really... 
