At every step, [man] must try the value of the advances he has made in thought, by applying his thoughts to things. The Explication of Conceptions must be carried on with a perpetual reference to the Colligation of Facts.
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History, (Volume 2), Book XIII, Chapter IV (p. 379)
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