Crossword-Solution: COLLIGATION
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| Colligation | n. | A binding together. |
| Colligation | n. | That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with COLLIGATION (5)
This system of colligation dates from old times in Arabia, as the Affair of Chains (Zat al-Salasil) proves.
Whewell, by an aptly chosen expression, has termed the Colligation of Facts.(55) In most of his observations concerning that mental process I fully agree, and would gladly transfer all that portion of his book into my own pages.
How far this tentative method, so indispensable as a means to the colligation of facts for purposes of description, admits of application to Induction itself, and what functions belong to it in that department, will be considered in the chapter of the present Book which relates to Hypotheses.
Whewell has remarked that these successive general expressions, though apparently so conflicting, were all correct: they all answered the purpose of colligation: they all enabled the mind to represent to itself with facility, and by a simultaneous glance, the whole body of facts at that time ascertained; each in its turn served as a correct description of the phenomena, so far as the senses had up to that time taken cognizance of them.
There is, however, between Colligation and Induction, a real correlation, which it is important to conceive correctly.