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You mean you wont call Dr. Dixon? It was locked from the inside. A few moments later Rob decided they had left the city behind as the car rocketed into increasing speed. § 8. The theory of the syllogism laid down in the preceding pages, has obtained, among other important adhesions, three of peculiar value: those of Sir John Herschel,[59]Dr. Whewell,[60] and Mr. Bailey;[61] Sir John Herschel considering the doctrine, though not strictly a discovery, having been anticipated by Berkeley,[62] to be “one of the greatest steps which have yet been made in the philosophy of Logic. “When we consider (to quote the further words of the same authority) “the inveteracy of the habits and prejudices which it has cast to the winds, there is no cause for misgiving in the fact that other thinkers, no less entitled to consideration, have formed a very different estimate of it. Their principal objection can not be better or more succinctly stated than by borrowing a sentence from Archbishop Whately.[63] “In every case where an inference is drawn from Induction (unless that name is to be given to a mere random guess without any grounds at all) we must form a judgment that the instance or instances adduced are sufficient to authorize the conclusion; that it is allowable to take these instances as a sample warranting an inference respecting the whole class; and the expression of this judgment in words (it has been said by several of my critics) is the major premise. Who had the key to the desk? Colonel Stepney asked. Whered you go, Andy? Kaitlynn and Jacks room was bigger, with the cot they had requested. Leaving the nanny to sort Noah out, and not letting Cleo carry anything heavy, Roy lugged their bags along the corridor. He reached the bottom of a very narrow, very steep spiral stone staircase. It was almost dangerously steep, he thought. I need to drive to get a phone signal — to call my nannys boyfriend, who should be with us. Jack Alexander. We do not understand why he is not here.’ § 4. An hypothesis is any supposition which we make (either without actual evidence, or on evidence avowedly insufficient) in order to endeavor to deduce from it conclusions in accordance with facts which are known to be real; under the idea that if the conclusions to which the hypothesis leads are known truths, the hypothesis itself either must be, or at least is likely to be, true. If the hypothesis relates to the cause or mode of production of a phenomenon, it will serve, if admitted, to explain such facts as are found capable of being deduced from it. And this explanation is the purpose of many, if not most hypotheses. Since explaining, in the scientific sense, means resolving a uniformity which is not a law of causation, into the laws of causation from which it results, or a complex law of causation into simpler and more general ones from which it is capable of being deductively inferred, if there do not exist any known laws which fulfill this requirement, we may feign or imagine some which would fulfill it; and this is making an hypothesis. These four classes comprising, if the classification be correct, all Namable Things, these or some of them must of course compose the signification of all names: and of these, or some of them, is made up whatever we call a fact. What about it? In the first place, it is obviously desirable to avail ourselves, as far as possible, of the associations already connected with the name; not enjoining the employment of it in a manner which conflicts with all previous habits, and especially not so as to require the rupture of those strongest of all associations between names, which are created by familiarity with propositions in which they are predicated of one another. A philosopher would have little chance of having his example followed, if he were to give such a meaning to his terms as should require us to call the North American Indians a civilized people, or the higher classes in Europe savages; or to say that civilized people live by hunting, and savages by agriculture. Were there no other reason, the extreme difficulty of effecting so complete a revolution in speech would be more than a sufficient one. The endeavor should be, that all generally received propositions into which the term enters, should be at least as true after its meaning is fixed, as they were before; and that the concrete name, therefore, should not receive such a connotation as shall prevent it from denoting things which, in common language, it is currently affirmed of. The fixed and precise connotation which it receives should not be in deviation from, but in agreement (as far as it goes) with, the vague and fluctuating connotation which the term already had. § 5. The first of these has been aptly denominated the Method of Residues. Its principle is very simple. Subducting from any given phenomenon all the portions which, by virtue of preceding inductions, can be assigned to known causes, the remainder will be the effect of the antecedents which had been overlooked, or of which the effect was as yet an unknown quantity. Supra,book iii., chap. x., § 2 So tell you what, Cracker, take a walk, she says. Or Ill call a cop..