About The Word Colligation
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Colligation
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What's The Definition Of Colligation?
[n] the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
[n] the state of being joined together Synonyms | Synonyms for Colligation: conjugation | conjunction | junction Related Terms | Find terms related to Colligation: See Also | anastomosis | association | connection | connexion | generalisation | generalization | induction | inductive reasoning | inosculation | synapse | unification | union Colligation In Webster's Dictionary \Col`li*ga"tion\, n. [L. colligatio.]
1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne.
2. (Logic) 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. ``The colligation of facts.'' --Whewell.
Colligation is not always induction, but induction
is always colligation. --J. S. Mill.
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