BOOK V. · GENERALISATION, ANALOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION. · CHAPTER XXVII. · GENERALISATION.

From The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method by William Stanley Jevons.

1. Generalisation 594

2. Distinction of Generalisation and Analogy 596

3. Two Meanings of Generalisation 597

4. Value of Generalisation 599

5. Comparative Generality of Properties 600

6. Uniform Properties of all Matter 603

7. Variable Properties of Matter 606

8. Extreme Instances of Properties 607

9. The Detection of Continuity 610

10. The Law of Continuity 615

11. Failure of the Law of Continuity 619

12. Negative Arguments on the Principle of Continuity 621

13. Tendency to Hasty Generalisation 623

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