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Logic recognizes a principal division in class names, according as these are the names of objects which agree with each other and ... - MORE Logic recognizes a principal division in class names, according as these are the names of objects which agree with each other and differ from other objects in a very large and indefinite number of particulars or attributes, or are the names of objects which agree only in a few and a definite number of attributes. The former are the names of "real kinds," and include the names of natural species, as man, horse, etc., and of natural genera, as whale, oak, etc.... For examples of names that are not the names of "real kinds," we may instance such objects as those that are an inch in length, or in breath, or are colored black, or are square, or (combining these particulars) such objects as black square inches.

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natural kinds

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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

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conviction

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The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based ... - MORE The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.

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science | induction

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The accidental causes of science are only "accidents" relatively to the intelligence of a man. The accidental causes of science are only "accidents" relatively to the intelligence of a man.

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accidents | chance

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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

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observation

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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its perf... - MORE Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.

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science

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A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct ... - MORE A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.

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fact and theory | theory

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