The sophist appeals to experience, to observed facts: the sequence which he alleges has been observed.
We have next to see whether there are any other rational expectations based on observed facts.
We shall have much to do with theory, and with conjectural interpretations of observed facts.
Law, in this sense, then, is simply the statement of observed facts, and as such can have no action at all.
No one appears to have thought of following the example of Aristotle, and gathering together a store of observed facts.
If we can predict new facts which we have not seen, as well as explain those which we have seen, it must be because our explanation is not a mere formula of observed facts, but a truth of a deeper kind.
He speaks repeatedly of the analysis and synthesis of observed facts; and thus marks certain steps in scientific research, very important, and not, I think, clearly pointed out by his predecessors.
Plato certainly would not have surrendered any [Greek: sullogismo\s] under the same respect to observed facts.
This preparatory treatment consists in finding general propositions which express concisely what is common to large classes of observed facts; and these are called the empirical laws of the phenomena.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "observed facts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
