You dont know what hotel she’s staying at, do you? Such, for instance, was one of the mistakes committed in the celebrated phlogistic theory; a doctrine which accounted for combustion by the extrication of a substance called phlogiston, supposed to be contained in all combustible matter. The hypothesis accorded tolerably well with superficial appearances; the ascent of flame naturally suggests the escape of a substance; and the visible residuum of ashes, in bulk and weight, generally falls extremely short of the combustible material. The error was, non-observation of an important portion of the actual residue, namely, the gaseous products of combustion. When these were at last noticed and brought into account, it appeared to be a universal law, that all substances gain instead of losing weight by undergoing combustion; and after the usual attempt to accommodate the old theory to the new fact by means of an arbitrary hypothesis (that phlogiston had the quality of positive levity instead of gravity), chemists were conducted to the true explanation, namely, that instead of a substance separated, there was, on the contrary, a substance absorbed. Thats all, Irvine said. No further re-direct. 256 General Considerations On The Social Science. Rob Trenton counted the minutes until he could get out of the congested lanes of city traffic and find less crowded roads. Curled up in the rear seat, Lobo slept with his head on his paws. The dog now had sufficient confidence in his new master to accept whatever his new environment might be with complete assurance. Why are you hanging around with themnow? Two empty cartridges which had been ejected from an automatic were found on the ground by the pier this morning. The dog opened his eyes, thumped his tail against the foot of the bed, then came crawling up for a morning greeting, putting his head on Robs chest, letting Rob’s fingers rough the hair of his forehead and around his ears. Ignoring the question, Roy led the way into the dining room, entered the kitchen, walked through a huge cold room at the far end and saw a closed door. Opening it, warning Cleo and Bruno to stay back, he went down a steep staircase into a vast wine cellar. To his left he saw a thick oak door. He tried the handle and, sure enough, it was locked. He pulled the second large, ancient key from his pocket, inserted it and twisted. Nothing happened. He tried again. Then again. When my mother got her on the phone, she told her that unless she was on the next plane to New York, she would have the French police arrest her, a threat Annie apparently believed because, lo and behold, she showed up at the apartment two days later, looking none the worse for wear, and telling us smugly that there were far better-looking men than Sven Lindqvist in this wide world of ours. We thought she was cured of her adolescent crush as well as her recent wanderlust. Well, wed have to be mighty certain of our facts. The way things are now... I’m satisfied it’ll all tie in when you get the evidence lined up, Herb. For instance, when DAlembert (I believe) remarked that in certain governments only two creatures find their way to the highest places, the eagle and the serpent, the metaphor not only conveys with great vividness the assertion intended, but contributes toward substantiating it, by suggesting, in a lively manner, the means by which the two opposite characters thus typified effect their rise. When it is said that a certain person misunderstands another because the lesser of two objects can not comprehend the greater, the application of what is true in the literal sense of the wordcomprehend, to its metaphorical sense, points to the fact which is the ground and justification of the assertion, viz., that one mind can not thoroughly understand another unless it can contain it in itself, that is, unless it possesses all that is contained in the other. When it is urged as an argument for education, that if the soil is left uncultivated, weeds will spring up, the metaphor, though no proof, but a statement of the thing to be proved, states it in terms which, by suggesting a parallel case, put the mind upon the track of the real proof. For, the reason why weeds grow in an uncultivated soil, is that the seeds of worthless products exist everywhere, and can germinate and grow in almost all circumstances, while the reverse is the case with those which are valuable; and this being equally true of mental products, this mode of conveying an argument, independently of its rhetorical advantages, has a logical value; since it not only suggests the grounds of the conclusion, but points to another case in which those grounds have been found, or at least deemed to be, sufficient. How far this tentative method, so indispensable as a means to the colligation of facts for purposes of description, admits of application to Induction itself, and what functions belong to it in that department, will be considered in the chapter of the present Book which relates to Hypotheses. On the present occasion we have chiefly to distinguish this process of Colligation from Induction properly so called; and that the distinction may be made clearer, it is well to advert to a curious and interesting remark, which is as strikingly true of the former operation, as it appears to me unequivocally false of the latter. Sixty feet would be twenty yards. Thats some little distance to shoot and put two bullets in such a close grouping. Oh yeah? Im telling you he’d have me out of here in five minutes flat. They say youre smarter than I am. Andy: I know I promised you and Mom that Id join you for the big sit-down today, but something’s come up, and I’m afraid I’ll have to bow out. In fact, I’ll be leaving for New Orleans almost as soon as I fire off this e-mail; a car to the airport is picking me up at eleven. Sorry for the late notice, but this just came up late yesterday afternoon. Is there no difference, then, save this merely verbal one, between the classes which the schoolmen admitted to be genera or species, and those to which they refused the title? Is it an error to regard some of the differences which exist among objects as differencesin kind (genere or specie), and others only as differences in the accidents? Were the schoolmen right or wrong in giving to some of the classes into which things may be divided, the name of kinds, and considering others as secondary divisions, grounded on differences of a comparatively superficial nature? Examination will show that the Aristotelians did mean something by this distinction, and something important; but which, being but indistinctly conceived, was inadequately expressed by the phraseology of essences, and the various other modes of speech to which they had recourse..