Usage examples (15)

• However, selecting the appropriate conception with which to colligate the data is not conjectural (1858b, p. 78).
• On the other hand, the data which a historian tries to colligate may be deemed to be data on evaluative grounds that another historian may not accept.
• These hypotheses involve generic concepts that, in Whewell's terms, “colligate” the more specific concepts that appear in hypotheses further down the ladder.
• Typically, finding the appropriate conception with which to colligate a class of phenomena requires a series of inferences, thus Whewell noted that discoverers's...