| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1856 - 288 páginas
...is called the Law of Parcemony, and is adequately expressed by Sir William Hamilton in these words: "Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." In commenting on this rule, which had been enounced by Newton, Sir William says, it is almost certain... | |
| Samuel Tyler - 1858 - 244 páginas
...is called the Law of Parcemony, and is adequately expressed by Sir William Hamilton in these words : "Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." In commenting on this rule, which had been enounced by Newton, Sir William says, it is almost certain... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 páginas
...elsewhere says that " it has never perhaps been adequately en ounced. It should be thus expressed : — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed than are ntcesinry to account for the plmnomena."] — Am. Ed. nerely inclined to believe in the uniformity... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 páginas
...elsewhere says that "it has never perhaps been adequately enounced. It should be thus expressed: — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed than are i tary to account for the phamomena."] —Am. Ed. _— merely inclined to believe in the uniformity... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...totally without means, or could have made any means sufficient. This Sabean theory is the only one by which the assertion, that Nature always works by...general scheme of things than others, is a distinction greatlv requiring what our author says it has never yet had — to be " articulately expressed." He... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...evidence; as if we were to suppose th.at a man who was killed by falling over a precipice, must have HH 2 In another place,* Sir W. Hamilton says that the Law...greatly requiring what our author says it has never yet had—to be " articulately expressed." He does not, however, articulate it in general terms, but only... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 368 páginas
...another place,* Sir W. Hamilton says that the Law of Parcimony, which he terms " the most important maxim in regulation of philosophical procedure when...articulate it in general terms, but only in its application to the particular question of Causality. From this we may collect, — 1st. That a " posi* Appendix... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 1222 páginas
...always virtually in force, never perhaps beeu adequately enounced. It should be thus expressed : — Neither MORE, nor MORE ONEROUS, causes are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phcenomena. — This rule thus falls naturally into two parts ; in the one, more, in the other, more... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 páginas
...laudably anxious to apply his admirable law of parsimony, which he gives in the following terms : — " Neither more, nor more onerous causes, are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." But I venture to suggest that the law of sufficiency is as important a law as that of parsimony, and... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 páginas
...laudably anxious to apply his admirable law of parsimony, which he gives in the following terms : — " Neither more, nor more onerous causes, are to be assumed...than are necessary to account for the phenomena." But I venture to suggest that the law of sufficiency is as important a law as that of parsimony, and... | |
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