 Experience must always consist of a limited number of observations; and, however numerous these may be, they can show nothing with regard to the infinite number of cases in which the experiment has not been made.  The Soul and the Future Life - Page 142by Thomas Cromwell - 1859 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 554 pages
..., . . Truths can only be known to be general, not universal, if they depend upon experience alone. Experience cannot bestow that universality which she...that necessity of which she has no comprehension.' — Phil. i. 60, 61. Now we conceive that a full answer to this argument is afforded by the nature... | |
 | Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 622 pages
...the nature and grounds of our conviction of their universality: Experience — says Mr. Whewell — must always consist of a limited number of observations ; and however numerous they may be, they can show nothing with regard to the infinite number of cases in which the experiment... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...offer themselves. From many we select the following statement: — " Experience," says Mr Whewell, " must always consist of a limited number of observations....which the experiment has not been made. Experience, being thus unable to prove a fact to be universal, is, as will readily be seen, still more incapable... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1847 - 754 pages
...diminished by one, is five hundred and eleven, which is not a prime, being divisible by seven. Experience must always consist of a limited number of observations....which the experiment has not been made. Experience being thus unable to prove a fact to be universal, is, as will readily be seen, still more incapable... | |
 | William Whewell - History - 1847 - 706 pages
...be necessary and universal cannot be derived from experience. The argument is this, — " Experience must always consist of a limited number of observations...of cases in which the experiment has not been made Truths can only be known to be general, not universal, if they depend upon experience alone. Experience... | |
 | William Whewell - History - 1847 - 716 pages
...been made Truths can only be known to be general, not universal, if they depend upon experience alone. Experience cannot bestow that universality which she...that necessity of which she has no comprehension.'" (PMl. i. pp. 63, 64.) Here is that which must be considered as the cardinal argument on this subject.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1850 - 616 pages
...hereafter be discovered which has the first of these attributes, without having the other Experience must always consist of a limited number of observations : and, however numerous these I may be, they can show nothing with regard to the infinite numher of cases in which the experiment... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Logic - 1853 - 314 pages
...beings, Consciousness is the only ultimate criterion of certitude. But " Experience," says Dr. Whewell, " must always consist of a limited number of observations....which the experiment has not been made. Experience being thus unable to prove a fact to be universal, is, as will readily be seen, still more incapable... | |
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 1860 - 604 pages
...be necessary and universal cannot be derived from experience. The argument is this, — " Experience must always consist of a limited number of observations;...cases in which the experiment has not been made.... Truths can only be known to be general, not universal, if they depend upon experience alone. Experience... | |
 | Lovell Reeve - Great Britain - 1863 - 224 pages
...exalt the thinking mind above all the the advantages of experience. " Experience,"- says Dr. Whewell, " must always consist of a limited number of observations...of cases in which the experiment has not been made. . . . Truths can only be known to be general, not universal, if they depend upon experience alone.... | |
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