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The prediction of results, even of the same kind as those which have been observed, in new cases, is a proof of real success in our inductive processes. ' But what appears to Dr. Whewell to establish the truth of a hypothesis beyond all question is what he calls a Consilience of Inductions. ' We have here spoken of the prediction of facts of the same kind as those from which our rule was collected. But the evidence in favour of our induction is of a much higher and more forcible character when ...it enables us to explain and determine cases of a kind different from those which were contemplated in the formation of our hypothesis. The instances in which this has occurred, indeed, impress us with a conviction Il8 PROCESSES SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION. that the truth of our hypothesis is certain. No accident could give rise to such an extraordinary coincidence. No false supposition could, after being adjusted to one class of phenomena, exactly represent a different class, where the agreement was unforeseen and uncontemplated.
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