 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 páginas
...derived from rigid Induction, but from the loose and uncertain mode of Induction per enumerationem simplicem." Then the Premise rests upon less satisfactory...all ruminating animals divide the hoof, would not be f*> ' held to outweigh the testimony of one unimpeachable witness, who should declare that, in some... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - 1879 - 472 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings arc black. To Europeans, not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken ; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - 1879 - 440 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans, not many years ago, the proposition,...course• of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken ; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During... | |
 | 1883 - 822 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans, not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken." (See also chap. xxi. voL ii. p. 101.) So speak all the thoughtful... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 660 páginas
...appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Eurojnians not many years ago, the proposition, All swans are white, appeared an equally unequi- ! vocal instance of uniformity in the course of nature. Further experience ' has proved to... | |
 | Henry Hughes - 1894 - 284 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During that... | |
 | Boyd Henry Bode - 1910 - 346 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During that... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1912 - 332 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken ; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During... | |
 | Robert Weston Babcock, John Henderson Powell (Jr.) - 1923 - 306 páginas
...probably appeared to rest on a more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience." In the... | |
 | Patrick L. Gardiner - 1968 - 472 páginas
...fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans not many years ago, the proposition,...the course of nature. Further experience has proved to both that they were mistaken ; but they had to wait fifty centuries for this experience. During... | |
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To an inhabitant of Central Africa, fifty years ago, no fact probably appeared to rest on more uniform experience than this, that all human beings are black. To Europeans, not many years ago, the proposition, All swans are white, appeared an equally unequivocal... 
