Public Economy for the United StatesA. S. Barnes & Company, 1848 - 536 páginas |
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... say a few words on the nature and functions of hypothesis , in scientific investigations . hypothesis , " says John Stuart Mill , in his system of logic , " is any supposition which we make , in order to deduce from it con- clusions in ...
... say a few words on the nature and functions of hypothesis , in scientific investigations . hypothesis , " says John Stuart Mill , in his system of logic , " is any supposition which we make , in order to deduce from it con- clusions in ...
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... says Mr. Mill , above cited as the latest and best logical authority , " to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hy- pothesis , that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis ; but be certain to be either proved or disproved ...
... says Mr. Mill , above cited as the latest and best logical authority , " to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hy- pothesis , that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis ; but be certain to be either proved or disproved ...
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... say , in assu- ming a more or less remote antecedent as a law , in order to ascertain , by scrutiny , whether it be , in fact , a law of causation in relation to a given effect ; and that , in this way ... says : " No more causes ,.
... say , in assu- ming a more or less remote antecedent as a law , in order to ascertain , by scrutiny , whether it be , in fact , a law of causation in relation to a given effect ; and that , in this way ... says : " No more causes ,.
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Calvin Colton. Sir Isaac Newton says : " No more causes ,. nor any other causes , of natural effects , ought to be admitted , but such as are both true and sufficient for explaining phenomena . " " This , " says Dr. Reid , in his Essays ...
Calvin Colton. Sir Isaac Newton says : " No more causes ,. nor any other causes , of natural effects , ought to be admitted , but such as are both true and sufficient for explaining phenomena . " " This , " says Dr. Reid , in his Essays ...
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... says , " is a science of coexistent facts , altogether inde- pendent of the laws of the succession of phenomena ; " but it is a very exact science . The science of mechanics is exact ; for though the relations of forces , in all ...
... says , " is a science of coexistent facts , altogether inde- pendent of the laws of the succession of phenomena ; " but it is a very exact science . The science of mechanics is exact ; for though the relations of forces , in all ...
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Página 312 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 41 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 136 - Under circumstances giving a powerful impulse to manufacturing industry, it has made among us a progress, and exhibited an efficiency, which justify the belief, that with a protection not more than is due...
Página 152 - But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth which will be allotted to each of these classes, under the names of rent, profit, and wages...
Página 279 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 41 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 41 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Página 161 - REST, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land. In adjusting the terms of the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share of the produce than what is sufficient to keep up the stock from which he furnishes the seed, pays the labour, and purchases and maintains the cattle, and other instruments of husbandry, together with the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood.
Página 314 - There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry. The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
Página 312 - But the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry, or rather is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value. As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as...