Adjective : uniform spelling; a uniform building code. ,uniform output; a uniform surface. ,uniform kindness; uniform velocity. ,to be issued uniform shoes. ,a uniform bound. From Dictionary.com.
Q Jake, have you heard anything from the President saying that in light of all of these problems from this election, there needs to be some kind of change, maybe bringing some type of universal uniformness within the election system here in this country?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Jake Siewert] Reference
Though perhaps, when they came to the use of speech, some regarding the uniformness of what was perceived, might call it the SAME thing: others, especially regarding the diversity of persons who perceived, might choose the denomination of DIFFERENT things. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Sect. 62, which rules grounded on the analogy, and uniformness observed in the production of natural effects, are most agreeable, and sought after by the mind; for that they extend our prospect beyond what is present, and near to us, and enable us to make very probable conjectures, touching things that may have happened at very great distances of time and place, as well as to predict things to come ¦. From Wordnik.com. [George Berkeley] Reference
Though perhaps, when they came to the use of speech, some regarding the uniformness of what was perceived, might call it the SAME thing: others, especially regarding the diversity of persons who perceived, might choose the denomination of. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
In spite of the uniformness of the results obtained in many successive years, Darwin inferred that the plants must have been in an "unnatural state."). From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
If therefore we consider the difference there is betwixt natural philosophers and other men, with regard to their knowledge of the phenomena, we shall find it consists not in an exacter knowledge of the efficient cause that produces them - for that can be no other than the will of a spirit - but only in a greater largeness of comprehension, whereby analogies, harmonies, and agreements are discovered in the works of nature, and the particular effects explained, that is, reduced to general rules, see sect. 62, which rules, grounded on the analogy and uniformness observed in the production of natural effects, are most agreeable and sought after by the mind; for that they extend our prospect beyond what is present and near to us, and enable us to make very probable conjectures touching things that may have happened at very great distances of time and place, as well as to predict things to come; which sort of endeavour towards omniscience is much affected by the mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley] Reference
If therefore we consider the difference there is betwixt natural philosophers and other men, with regard to their knowledge of the phenomena, we shall find it consists not in an exacter knowledge of the efficient cause that produces them -- for that can be no other than the will of a spirit -- but only in a greater largeness of comprehension, whereby analogies, harmonies, and agreements are discovered in the works of nature, and the particular effects explained, that is, reduced to general rules, see sect. 62, which rules, grounded on the analogy and uniformness observed in the production of natural effects, are most agreeable and sought after by the mind; for that they extend our prospect beyond what is present and near to us, and enable us to make very probable conjectures touching things that may have happened at very great distances of time and place, as well as to predict things to come; which sort of endeavour towards omniscience is much affected by the mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge] Reference
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