colligating

Genuine progress in science depends not so much upon simple generalization from observed data as from the locating by inventive genius new colligating concepts.

John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

It is Whewell's contention that as new colligating ideas emerge in the history of science, the principles in which they are embedded become necessary.

John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

Whewell claimed that a large part of the history of science is the “history of scientific ideas,” that is, the history of their explication and subsequent use as colligating concepts.

William Whewell Snyder, Laura J. 2006

Beneath the endless variety of his poems, there are permanent principles, or "colligating conceptions," as science calls them; and although these are expressed by the way of emotion, they are held by him with all the resources of his reason.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

There is room and need for the higher synthesis of philosophy and poetry, as well as for the more palpable and, at the same time, more narrow colligating conceptions of the systematic sciences.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

If this fact were more constantly kept in view, the effort of philosophers to bring the ultimate colligating principles of thought into clear consciousness would not, at the outset at least, be regarded with so much suspicion.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

But if they do not, if, on the contrary, each science is ruled by its own hypothesis, and uses that hypothesis to bind its facts together, then the question arises, are there no wider colligating principles amongst these hypotheses themselves?

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

Now, so far as the particular sciences are concerned, I presume that no one will deny the supreme power of these colligating ideas.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

One thing is certain, this colligating of schools is not much if at all used at the North, where they know much more of the operation of such systems than we do at the South.

Letter from Charles Phillips to Kemp P. Battle, August 12, 1867 1867

“true bond of Unity by which the phenomena are held together” (1847, II, p. 46), by providing a property shared by the known members of a class (in the case of causal laws, the colligating property is that of sharing the same cause).

William Whewell Snyder, Laura J. 2006