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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII HISTORICAL SKETCH OF INDUCTION Socrates (470-399 B.c).--We find the beginnings of inductive inquiry in the Socratio or maieutic method, that art of mental midwifery by which conceptions were to be delivered from the mass of individual experiences and opinions in which they lie concealed. The Socratic procedure in the formation of conceptions is to question every particular view, and estimate it by bringing together analogous cases, and discovering their natural connections, so as to explicate the general notion which it contains, and thus proceed from comparison of particulars to the framing of general propositions. Socrates's generalizations were many of them hasty, and in his desire to formulate a general conception he overlooked exceptions and minimized difficulties, but in his method there were the germs of truly scientific procedure. The sphere of his method was, however, limited, as he applied it only to the illumination of ethical controversies. Plato (427-347 b.C.).--Plato enriched the Socratic method of induction by removing its limitation to ethical inquiry. Plato was especially concerned with investigating the relations of his "ideas" to each other, and this led to the apprehension of the logical relations between conceptions, especially as regards their subordination and coordination. This forms a basis for classification,--Plato's division of class-concepts or logical genera into their species is a prominent feature of his method. He also suggests the hypothetical method of treating the relations of concepts; namely, to examine a tentatively proposed conception by developing all the possible consequences that would follow from its union with known conceptions. This is in keeping with the inducto-deductive...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230232699
- ISBN 13 9781230232690
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages134
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