Had these three presentations not been watched, the brief apparition of the Thoth-Nepenthes had been missed and with it the revealing of its curious character, and of certain deductions thereupon.
At the other extremity stand those deductions which we usually speak of as proved, such as the law of gravitation.
To-day, since the original interpretation of the Darwinian theory has been discarded, with it have fallen all those deductions which medicine and sociology were in too great haste to draw, in order to make scientific application of them.
After being permitted for a long period of time, the practice which the Manila authorities had followed of making these deductions was finally disapproved by the home government.
As noted above, the practice had arisen of making deductions from the subsidy equivalent to the amount of bienes de difuntos produced in the Philippines, and of retaining the money in Acapulco.
By intellectual processes and logical deductions of reason this superpower in man can penetrate the mysteries of the future and anticipate its happenings.
The most constant reproach which is launched against persons of my way of thinking is that it is all very well for us to talk about the deductions of scientific thought, but what are the poor and the {413} uneducated to do?
Blemishes for which at other times deductions would be claimed are now over-looked.
Among the most popular delusions of mankind, in earlier ages, were the deductions drawn from the stars, under the name of astrology; a science so long sustained by men of superior intellect, as to justify the credulity of the ignorant.
But Lebrun and his disciples looked upon the thing seriously; instituting pernicious deductions from certain accidents of form, and tending to approximate enlightened man to the brute creation.
From these discourses, in which the scholar abandoned the details by which science advances for the general principles of the popular orator, the deductions of liberalism proceed as surely as the revolution from the title-page of Sieyes.
And the problem of general sociology is to ascertain these, and connect them with the laws of human nature, by deductions showing that such were the derivative laws naturally to be expected as the consequences of those ultimate ones.
But the deductionswhich Bacon abolished were from premises hastily snatched up, or arbitrarily assumed.
The empirical laws, destined to verify its deductions, have been formed in abundance by every successive age of humanity; and the premises for the deductions are now sufficiently complete.
It is satisfactory that we are not obliged to suppose the deductions of pure mathematics to be among the most uncertain of argumentative processes, which on Mr. Spencer’s theory they could hardly fail to be, since they are the longest.
Is it not a series of deductions from the known properties of elastic fluids?
Whewell that they all began by being assumed, for the purpose of connecting them by deductions with those facts of experience on which, as evidence, they now confessedly rest.
It is evident, in the first place, that Sociology, considered as a system of deductions a priori, can not be a science of positive predictions, but only of tendencies.
That Divine action has concurred and concurs in these laws we know by deductions from our primary intuitions; and physical science, if unable to demonstrate such action, is at least as impotent to disprove it.
It was Ronnie who, picking up the thread of our deductions from the Home Farm interview in the course of our discussion, sought to reconcile us and our theories.
There was a strange stimulation, however, in the deductions that I drew from that portentous chiming, for my interest was at once called to the fact that this was the first time that clock had struck since I had been on the lawn.
But when one of these comes into collision with another whose reason is exercised upon facts and the deductions to be drawn from them, the questions occur, possibly for the first time, Are the grounds of my belief tenable?
We recognize the accuracy of our deductions when we find that the aim of the Roman church has been to reduce men to the condition here described, and then to use them as carpenters do planes, chisels, and axes.
Yet his arguments are unanswerable, and his deductions unimpeachable, by those who know the value of evidence and exercise their power of ratiocination.
The astronomer Royal is often asked to cast a nativity; and a living merchant of Liverpool does so yet, having confidence that his deductions suffice to prove their value.
If we endeavour to apply this observation to certain cases, we shall see how far the deductions are vraisemblable.
It is clear that neither the deductions of the first nor second men are right; neither has read the mind of his fetish.
Flourens; but they are logical deductionsfrom the assertion just quoted, and from the further statement that natural selection means only that "organization chooses and selects organization.
The mathematician starts with a few simple propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them.
At the same time I know of no more striking case of the necessity of the verification of even those deductions which seem founded on the widest and safest inductions.
He insisted upon the educational value of accuracy, demanded of the scientist, and the avoiding a priori assumptions and hastily drawn deductions from insufficient data.
Here the Apostle traverses antinomian deductions from his doctrine of liberty.
The deductions of the Baurian criticism appear to us to rest on a narrow and arbitrary examination of isolated passages; they spring from a mistaken a priori view of the historical situation.
I have inoculated the lower animals with it, and I have seen results which satisfy me that my deductions are correct.
Per contra, whilst these deductions may be true and logical, they are not necessarily so; consequently, they are good only until refuted.
But is it not true, that by your logical arguments various and varying deductions are obtained by different students, all seeking these finalities, which you term facts?
Mesmer himself was a very erratic, unscientific man, who either did not or would not arrange his observations into scientific order, from which logical deductions might have been made.
But, like many deductions assumed to be logical, it is illogical, because your premises are wrong.
But though he is careful not to say so in express words, the meaning of all his deductions is very clear; and passages from the sacred Scriptures are contorted to suit his purpose.
The logical deductions following necessarily from that which is precisely the article of Catholic faith are included in the obligatory doctrine.
And where thesedeductions have not been expressly drawn out and defined in ecclesiastical decrees, the authority of the concurrent teaching of theologians is acknowledged in explicit terms by F.
Bridget's various surprises and deductions kept the audience constantly laughing whenever she appeared.
Bridget's various deductions and surprises kept the audience constantly laughing whenever she appeared.
I'm trying to be logical in my deductions and to face the facts sensibly.
In view of the results, as we find them, two deductions are open to us.
It may be taken, after all deductions for occasional discoveries of the entire work, to be the sole existing voucher for a terribly large section of the more popular books of our forefathers, just as the Stationers' Register is for another.
It was part of Wise's policy never to hold secret conclaves with his little assistant, for, he said that the people who employed him were entitled to all his suspicions or deductions as they took shape and grew in his mind.
Together they went over the known details, and then she cleverly drew from Peterson his deductions and decisions.
As respects deductions on observed data, his book is about the most mature yet published by a ranchman.
No matter what deductions analysis may lead to, the fact remains that the western bad men of open range days have become a part of the American tradition.
But if his assumptions are unsound, or his deductions false, I shall hold them for naught.
Even if your deductions are all wrong, you have shown marvelous acumen.
He had, he said himself, no use for the hair-trigger deductions of imaginative brains which, oftener than not, were false.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deductions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
