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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... understood, and which has not been hitherto sufficiently regarded. We are now prepared to pass to the consideration of the rules to be observed in making inductions from facts thus collected and classified. CHAPTER VII. CANONS OF THE INDUCTIVE METHOD. It may be supposed that in any collections of facts with reference to the determination of a general law, the manner in which they express or exhibit that law will vary. Some will seem to direct us immediately to its consideration, while others will lead us by a route more or less circuitous. This variety in the modes by which facts communicate their teaching, gives rise to a number of precepts applicable to particular cases, which we call the Canons of the Inductive Method, or the rules to be observed in treating the various forms and conditions of the instances from which the induction is to be made. Of course, therefore, it will not be expected that these canons will all be involved in every case, any more than all the rules of syntax in the analysis of every sentence. Their application is determined by the necessity that calls for them. In the prosecution of our plan, the reasons for which have already been given, we shall express and illustrate these canons in the language of Sir John Herschel, compared, as occasion may require, with Mr. Mill, while we seek to point out cases in biblical studies in which they will severally be applicable. It is deemed proper to remark, in this place. that although the phraseology of some of the following canons may at first appear difficult of comprehension to those who have not been accustomed to the use of philosophical and scientific language, such difficulty will disappear, it is believed, after a little thought and patience, particularly if the main point in the ru
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The Organon of Scripture, Or, the Inductive Method of Biblical Interpretation
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