 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...the degree of their probable inaccuracy, we may safely ground our expectations and our conduct. § 2. The science of human nature is of this description....that it should not be as much a science as Tidology ie, or as Astronomy was when its calculations had only mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...the degree of their probable inaccuracy, we may safely ground our expectations and our conduct. § 2. The science of human nature is of this description....reason that it should not be as much a science as Tiddlogy is, or as Astronomy was when its calculations had only mastered the main phenomena, but not... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1859 - 632 pages
...the degree of their probable inaccuracy, we may safely ground our expectations and our conduct. § 2. The science of human nature is of this description. It falls far shiirt of the standard of exactness now realized in Astronomy ; but there is no reason that it should... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 192 pages
...unlock the arcana of the science. The science of human nature is, as Mr. Mill very properly contends, of this description. It falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized even by Meteorology or Geology. But there is no reason why it should not be as much a science as Tidology... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 802 pages
...treatment, he says, and we quite agree with him, though this science may not be as exact as modern astronomy, ' but there is no reason that it should...calculations had only mastered the main phenomena, and not the perturbations.' He thinks wo might then be able ' to foretell how an individual would think,... | |
 | George Grote - 1872 - 508 pages
...assigning to each of those causes the share of effect that really belongs to it The science of human nature falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized...mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations." CHAP. VII. PB/ECOQNITA ASSUMED IN ALL TEACHING. 305 variety thereof, some prœcognita must be assumed,... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophers - 1872 - 518 pages
...assigning to each of those causes the share of effect that really belongs to it The science of human nature falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized...mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations." variety thereof, some proecognita must be assumed, which the learner must know before he comes to be... | |
 | George Grote - History - 1880 - 708 pages
...causes the share of effect that really belongs to it The' science of human nature falls far short of tho standard of exactness now realized in Astronomy ;...mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations." 11 Analyt. Post. I. i. pp. 71-72 ; Metaphys. A. ix. p. 992, b. 30. contemplate ; he must know what... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 674 pages
...the degree of their probable inaccuracy, we may safely ground our expectations and our conduct. § 2. The science of human nature is of this description....science as Tidology is, or as Astronomy was when its caleulations had only mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations. The phenomena with which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 664 pages
...of human nature is of this description. It falls far short of the standard of exactness now realised in Astronomy ; but there is no reason that it should...science as Tidology is, or as Astronomy was when its calculaliens had only mastered the main phenomena, but not the perturbations. The phenomena with which... | |
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The science of human nature is of this description. It falls far short of the standard of exactness now realized in Astronomy; but there is no reason that it should not be as much a science as Tidology is, or as Astronomy was when its calculations had... 
