An individual fact is said to be explained, by pointing out its cause, that is, by stating the law or laws of causation, of which its production is an instance. Thus, a conflagration is explained, when it is proved to have arisen from a spark falling into the midst of a heap of combustibles. And in a similar manner, a law or uniformity in nature is said to be explained, when another law or laws are pointed out, of which that law itself is but a case, and from which it could be deduced. Roy peered out of the window at the falling rain, then gave her a naughty look.Perhaps we could do some other form of exercise? The waitress. Dont look at her. In the middle of their rear seat sat their delightful, twenty-eight-year-old Californian nanny, Kaitlynn, who had become something of a family friend. She was sandwiched between Bruno and their two-year-old son, Noah, in his child seat. Roy and Cleo had offered Kaitlynn and her boyfriend, Jack Alexander— a Detective Sergeant on Roys team — a free holiday. In return she would occasionally look after Noah while he and Cleo went out on some of the long bike rides they’d been looking forward to. Yeah, they couldnt find it last time, boss,’ Jack said. Dr. Dixon said,The coroner had his pet physician dig into the body to recover the bullets and determine the course of the bullet wounds. That had all been done before I got there. There wasnt much left. She throws the broken bottle into the scraggly bushes lining the dusty road, and thinks at first she should go back to her tiny room over the butcher shop, but wouldnt those roughs in the bar know where she lives? Or wouldn’t they ask the proprietor of the bar where she lives, everyoneknows she lives right over the butcher shop! So she heads up the mountain instead. It is close to midnight on a Friday night on a lonely Sicilian road. My sister has no specific plan in mind exceptnot to go back to the dubious safety of her room over the butcher shop. At first, she’s not sure she’s actually seeing figures in the road ahead of her. She stops, peers into the darkness. Professor Bain (Logic, ii., 13) mentions two empirical laws, which he considers to be, with the exception of the law connecting Gravity with Resistance to motion,the two most widely operating laws as yet discovered whereby two distinct properties are conjoined throughout substances generally. The first is, “a law connecting Atomic Weight and Specific Heat by an inverse proportion. For equal weights of the simple bodies, the atomic weight multiplied by a number expressing the specific heat, gives a nearly uniform product. The products, for all the elements, are near the constant number 6. The other is a law which obtains “between the specific gravity of substances in the gaseous state, and the atomic weights. The relationship of the two numbers is in some instances equality; in other instances the one is a multiple of the other. Πρός τι, Relatio. Anyone else? Harley was wearing some kind of blue nylon jacket with yellow letters on the back, GHP for Georgia Highway Patrol or some such, although the first time around (we heardthis story many times, too) he was merely an out-of-uniform member of the local constabulary. Whatever else he was, he was certainly comical. At least the way Annie tells it. Shes wonderful with accents and dialects, my sister. I wish I could do them the way she does. I said:Its early in the day for that, even for Joey. But I wouldn’t let it bother me. Its okay, Ostrander said reassuringly. The fire has attracted a lot of people. Drive right up, Linda. We’ll pretend we’re just curiosity seekers wondering what it’s all about. Everyone remember now, we were looking for a place to have a picnic. We saw the group of spectators and came over to see what was causing the excitement. The smuggler nodded. I just hope she isnt already on a plane to Timbuktu, my mother says. The preceding argument, which is, to my mind unanswerable, merges, however, in a still more comprehensive one, which is stated most clearly and conclusively by Professor Bain. The psychological reason why axioms, and indeed many propositions not ordinarily classed as such, may be learned from the idea only without referring to the fact, is that in the process of acquiring the idea we have learned the fact. The proposition is assented to as soon as the terms are understood, because in learning to understand the terms we have acquired the experience which proves the proposition to be true.We required, says Mr. Bain,[74] “concrete experience in the first instance, to attain to the notion of whole and part; but the notion, once arrived at, implies that the whole is greater. In fact, we could not have the notion without an experience tantamount to this conclusion.... When we have mastered the notion of straightness, we have also mastered that aspect of it expressed by the affirmation that two straight lines can not inclose a space. No intuitive or innate powers or perceptions are needed in such case.... We can not have the full meaning of Straightness, without going through a comparison of straight objects among themselves, and with their opposites, bent or crooked objects. The result of this comparison is, inter alia, that straightness in two lines is seen to be incompatible with inclosing a space; the inclosure of space involves crookedness in at least one of the lines. And similarly, in the case of every first principle,[75] “the same knowledge that makes it understood, suffices to verify it. The more this observation is considered the more (I am convinced) it will be felt to go to the very root of the controversy. In the event Rob approached the house cautiously, knowing at once that something was amiss. There could only have been one reason why Joe would have chained the dog outside, not under any shelter, but on the ground, with only the sky overhead. Someone had ordered him to chain the dog up. Someone who dared not have the dog running loose. Someone who was for the moment in a position of authority. Rob looked back towards the houseboat and suddenly became rigid. Macintosh grinned.Hes a wild Indian; I know that. Kirby says he’s a good egg. But wild. All, therefore, which Hume has made out, and this he must be considered to have made out, is, that (at least in the imperfect state of our knowledge of natural agencies, which leaves it always possible that some of the physical antecedents may have been hidden from us) no evidence can prove a miracle to any one who did not previously believe the existence of a being or beings with supernatural power; or who believes himself to have full proof that the character of the Being whom he recognizes is inconsistent with his having seen fit to interfere on the occasion in question..