This “act of thought” is a process Whewell called “colligation.”. From Wordnik.com. [William Whewell] Reference
Mill does not disagree, but argues, contrary to Whewell, that colligation by itself is no test of truth. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
colligation is not always induction; but induction is always colligation. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
But the induction, once made, accomplishes the purposes of colligation likewise. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
How far this tentative method, so indispensable as a means to the colligation of facts for purposes of description, admits of application to. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
In different stages of the progress of knowledge, philosophers have employed, for the colligation of the same order of facts, different conceptions. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Even a simple colligation of inductions already made, without any fresh extension of the inductive inference, is already an advance in that direction. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Without the previous colligation of detached observations by means of one general conception, we could never have obtained any basis for an induction, except in the case of phenomena of very limited compass. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
If we had never seen any white object or had never seen any cloven-footed animal before, we should at the same time and by the same mental act acquire the idea, and employ it for the colligation of the observed phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Successive expressions for the colligation of observed facts, or, in other words, successive descriptions of a phenomenon as a whole, which has been observed only in parts, may, though conflicting, be all correct as far as they go. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The assertion that the planets move in ellipses, was but a mode of representing observed facts; it was but a colligation; while the assertion that they are drawn, or tend, toward the sun, was the statement of a new fact, inferred by induction. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
The assertion that the planets move in ellipses, was but a mode of representing observed facts; it was but a colligation; while the assertion that they are drawn, or tend, towards the sun, was the statement of a new fact, inferred by induction. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
As observations increased in accuracy, facts were disclosed which were not reconcilable with this simple supposition: for the colligation of those additional facts, the supposition was varied; and varied again and again as facts became more numerous and precise. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
As observations increased in accuracy, and facts were disclosed which were not reconcileable with this simple supposition; for the colligation of those additional facts, the supposition was varied; and varied again and again as facts became more numerous and precise. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
I only think him mistaken in setting up this kind of operation, which according to the old and received meaning of the term, is not induction at all, as the type of induction generally; and laying down, throughout his work, as principles of induction, the principles of mere colligation. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
In every way, therefore, it is evident that to explain induction as the colligation of facts by means of appropriate conceptions, that is, conceptions which will really express them, is to confound mere description of the observed facts with inference from those facts, and ascribe to the latter what is a characteristic property of the former. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The envy and ill-nature displayed in this speech occasioned the scholar to remark, that it filled him with dolour to perceive, where consanguinity ought to produce colligation, there was a disunion of mind, occasioned by the malevolence and commentitious grievances of his elder sister, who had no just cause of complaint to allege against Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
The conceptions, then, which we employ for the colligation and methodization of facts, do not develop themselves from within, but are impressed upon the mind from without; they are never obtained otherwise than by way of comparison and abstraction, and, in the most important and the most numerous cases, are evolved by abstraction from the very phenomena which it is their office to colligate. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Scriptural history of the Hebrew patriarchs in Lower Asia; but, as has been explained already, its connection with Scripture rather militated than otherwise against its reception as a complete theory, since the majority of the inquirers who till recently addressed themselves with most earnestness to the colligation of social phenomena, were either influenced by the strongest prejudice against. From Wordnik.com. [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference
This system of colligation dates from old times in Arabia, as the “Affair of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Now Dr. Whewell has remarked that these successive general expressions, though apparently so conflicting, were all correct: they all answered the purpose of colligation; they all enabled the mind to represent to itself with facility, and by a simultaneous glance, the whole body of facts at the time ascertained: each in its turn served as a correct description of the phenomena, so far as the senses had up to that time taken cognizance of them. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Now Dr. Whewell has remarked that these successive general expressions, though apparently so conflicting, were all correct: they all answered the purpose of colligation: they all enabled the mind to represent to itself with facility, and by a simultaneous glance, the whole body of facts at that time ascertained; each in its turn served as a correct description of the phenomena, so far as the senses had up to that time taken cognizance of them. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
But seeing that the multitudinous facts far surpass our powers of complete colligation, that much in the vital process is still obscure, that we are conscious in ourselves of a power of shaping circumstances which we are inclined in various degrees to attribute to other living things, so far we recognize a profound difference between the laws of life and the laws of physics, and pay our respects to M. Bergson and his allies of the neo-vitalist school. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
There is no doubt, of course, that this theory was originally based on the Scriptural history of the Hebrew patriarchs in Lower Asia; but, as has been explained already, its connection with Scripture rather militated than otherwise against its reception as a complete theory, since the majority of the inquirers who till recently addressed themselves with most earnestness to the colligation of social phenomena, were either influenced by the strongest prejudice against Hebrew antiquities or by the strongest desire to construct their system without the assistance of religious records. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference
We observed, in the second chapter, that the proposition “the earth moves in an ellipse,” so far as it only serves for the colligation or connecting together of actual observations (that is, as it only affirms that the observed positions of the earth may be correctly represented by as many points in the circumference of an imaginary ellipse), is not an induction, but a description: it is an induction, only when it affirms that the intermediate positions, of which there has been no direct observation, would be found to correspond to the remaining points of the same elliptic circumference. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
A colligation of incongruous coalescences. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891] Reference
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