Our knowledge of the existence of things reaches as far as our perceptions, and what may be inferred from them according to empirical laws, extend.
The strict universality of this law never can be a characteristic of empirical laws, which obtain through induction only a comparative universality, that is, an extended range of practical application.
In the above considerations lies the justification of the limited degree of reliance which scientific inquirers are accustomed to place in empirical laws.
It is impossible to maintain, as he here does, that "no empirical laws of bodily appearances [can] intervene in the explanation of what belongs exclusively to inner sense.
A thing is known to be possible only when presented in some concrete experience, or when, though not actually experienced, it has been proved to be bound up, according to empirical laws, with given perceptions.
For no empirical laws of bodily appearances, which are of a totally different kind, will then intervene in the explanation of what belongs exclusively to inner sense.
Man is a natural existence, and his activities are subject to empirical laws.
Generalizations which rest only on the Method of Agreement can only be received as empirical laws 43 6.
But at every step these middle principles, got by deduction, must be verified a posteriori by empirical laws, and by specific experience respecting the assumed circumstances.
Consequently they come under the definition of Empirical Laws, equally with uniformities not known to be laws of causation.
In giving such prominence to empirical laws in his theory, Mill confined Induction to a narrower scope than science ascribes to it.
If this theory were sound, science would be confined to the observation of empirical laws.
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