"Uninquiring" Quotes from Famous Books
... examination in former places, where, in investigating the rules of correct induction, we have had occasion to advert to the distinction between it and some common mode of the incorrect. In this number is what I have formerly called the natural Induction of uninquiring minds, the induction of the ancients, which proceeds per enumerationem simplicem: "This, that, and the other A are B, I can not think of any A which is not B, therefore every A is B." As a final condemnation of this rude and slovenly mode of generalization, I ... — A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill |