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2 revisions | jasirs94 at Nov 20, 2016 03:44 AM | |
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93G93 be fairly thrown into the form of a fallacy of undistributed middle, since all we really know of the general uniformity of nature is that some pairs of phenomena (an apparently infinitesimal proportion of all pairs) are connected as logical antecedent and consequent; fifthly, because a sound syllogism must not conclude beyond the breadth, or logical extension of its minor premiss, when this is suitably stated, while to represent a true induction it must do so. There are other objections, fully as strong as these five; but it seems needless to mention them. The Second theory correctly describes the procedure of the mind in crude inductions, but in no others; and Mill's celebrated four methods, (chiefly based on the Novum Organum,) though they may be of some help to minds that need | 93 |