Colligation

Mill does not disagree, but argues, contrary to Whewell, that colligation by itself is no test of truth. ❋ Wilson, Fred (2007)

This “act of thought” is a process Whewell called “colligation.” ❋ Snyder, Laura J. (2006)

Prior even to Franklin D. Roosevelt this entire colligation of ideas had been impaired by three developments in national governmental practice: first, the growth of Presidential initiative in legislation; secondly, the delegation by Congress of legislative powers to the President; thirdly, the delegation in many instances of like powers to so-called independent agencies or commissions, in which are merged in greater or less measure the three powers of government of Montesquieu's postulate. ❋ Edward Samuel Corwin (1920)

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 ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

How far this tentative method, so indispensable as a means to the colligation of facts for purposes of description, admits of application to ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

In different stages of the progress of knowledge, philosophers have employed, for the colligation of the same order of facts, different conceptions. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Even a simple colligation of inductions already made, without any fresh extension of the inductive inference, is already an advance in that direction. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Colligation is not always induction; but induction is always colligation. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

But the induction, once made, accomplishes the purposes of colligation likewise. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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