To account for a law of nature means, and can mean, no more than to assign other laws more general, together with collocations, which laws and collocations being supposed, the partial law follows without any additional supposition.


A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Chapter XII (p. 277), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1867

John Stuart Mill Quotes

To account for a law of nature means, and can mean, no more than to assign other laws more general, together with collocations, which laws and...

To account for a law of nature means, and can mean, no more than to assign other laws more general, together with collocations, which laws and...

To account for a law of nature means, and can mean, no more than to assign other laws more general, together with collocations, which laws and...

To account for a law of nature means, and can mean, no more than to assign other laws more general, together with collocations, which laws and...