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simple enumeration
noun
- a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
Example Sentences
Yet such a simple enumeration fails to get at the danger.
Earlier this month Bill Moyers described Trump as “a psychopathic narcissist whose alt-right agenda offers so many threats to the well-being of our country and the world, they defy simple enumeration or categorization.â€
A method of proof which, when used as directed, gives sometimes truth and sometimes falsehood—as the method of simple enumeration does—is obviously not a valid method, for validity demands invariable truth.
According to Mill, the law of causation is proved by an admittedly fallible process called “induction by simple enumeration.â€
Some such principle as this is required if the method of simple enumeration is to be valid.
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