Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth As Opposed to Agnosticism Being a Treatise
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We assert that crows are black, but we cannot 30 CRITERIA OF TRUTH. go the round of the world and ascertain that it is so. We may have examined millions of cases and found all crows black, but how do we know that a traveller may not report that he has found a white crow in some distant island ? In science we say that all mammals are warm-blooded, or that all matter attracts other matter inversely according to the square of the distance ; but no one has searched the uni- verse and noticed every ...mannnal and every particle of matter so as to be able to say that no mammal is cold- blooded, and no particle of matter without the power of attraction. But from a limited number of observations we can rise to a law which seems to be universal. How is it BO ? Mr. Mill maintains that he who can answer this ques- tion is wiser than the ancients. Bacon describes the method of observation by " perfect innumeration " of cases as puerile and incapable of yielding any fruitf id results. In induction we have to rise from the unknown to the known.
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