The Basis of Belief: Proof by Inductive Reasoning

abstract science affirmed animals argument Bacon body Boone county bowlders called cannon CHAPTER circum collocation common circumstances conclusion consistency Count Rumford crows are black deductive discovered duction effect efficient causes ence energetic cause energy event evidence existing order experience fact of relation facts of causation fallacy gold heat historical cause human testimony hypothesis Hyracotherium Idols Inductive Logic Inductive Reasoning inductive science inference John Stuart Mill known lines of uniformity mary induction material cause matter ment merely Mill mind mixed induction motion natural kind negative cause never objects Ohio River parallel phenomena plants possible premise primary induction proof proposition proved question reason regarded resemblance Rubidium scientific secondary induction sense simply species specific gravity stance syllogism test of agreement test of difference theory thinking machine thought tion transform tree true truth uniformity of nature vera causa word cause