 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 654 pages
...This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. Take, for instance, the most familiar class of meteorological... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Economics - 1848 - 556 pages
...indeed, there can be no doubt. " Any facts," says Mr. Mill, " are fitted in themselves to be a tubject of science, which follow one another according to...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources." Meteorology and tidology are among these imperfect sciences.... | |
 | International law - 1849 - 470 pages
...truths. " Constancy of causation," says Mr. Mill, " is the foundation of every scientific theory." And again : " Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to...which follow one another according to constant laws." Then, we now proceed a step further in the [inquiry, and ask whether the law be a science in any respect,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. Take, for instance, the most familiar class of meteorological... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. Take, for instance, the most familiar class of meteorological... | |
 | George Grote - 1872 - 508 pages
...constant conjunctions ; and we find the same doctrine in the following passage of Mr. Mill : — " Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. Take, for instance, the most familiar class of meteorological... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - Teaching - 1879 - 472 pages
...This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. . . . Scientific inquiry has not yet succeeded in ascertaining... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 440 pages
...This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. . . . Scientific inquiry has not yet succeeded in ascertaining... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 176 pages
...recognise the existence of a deductive science of human nature itself. (Logic, vi. 3). Accord1ng to him ' Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable, by our existing resources.' (Mill, Logic, vi. 3. 1. See also vi. 5. 5. Mill also remarks... | |
 | George Grote - History - 1880 - 708 pages
...constant conjunctions ; and we find the same doctrine in the following passage of Mr. Mill : — " Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject...those laws may not have been discovered, nor even bo discoverable by our existing resources. Tüke, for instance, the moat familiar class of meteorological... | |
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Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject of science, which follow one another according to constant laws ; although those laws may not have been discovered, nor even be discoverable by our existing resources. 
