The Principles of Science
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William Stanley Jevons writes about reasoning in science. In the pages sampled he separates perfect from imperfect induction and insists that the results of imperfect induction are never more than probable, since we cannot be sure that the future will be as the present. Another passage discusses imaginary devices such as centres of gravity, poles of the magnet and lines of force, which he calls Representative Hypotheses. A chapter is titled 'Empirical Knowledge, Explanation, and Prediction'.
The text also uses logical equations written with letters, such as B = AB, and works through a syllogism with potassium as the example. The transcriber explains that unusual symbols were replaced with similar Unicode characters and that footnotes were renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
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- Author
- William Stanley Jevons
- Reading time
- About 20 hours
- Pages
- 655
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science
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