The mere observation of regularities can help us to reduce a particular case to a frequently observed type, but what we seek to understand is the necessity of the process.
Considered as a fact, it is the statement of observed processes, and belongs to positive science like the observed courses of the planets, or any other observed regularities and uniformities.
Now, if I take any single organism and study it carefully, simply as a biologist or physiologist, I shall recognize in it certain regularities of structure and function and development, upon which I can found various arguments and predictions.
It is these regularities that have suggested the supposed law of causality; where they are found to fail, it is thought that a better formulation could have been found which would have never failed.
In spite of these difficulties, it must, of course, be admitted that many fairly dependable regularities of sequence occur in daily life.
The classification of the elements was more and more seen to be important, and regularities came to light which at first were unsuspected.
On philosophic grounds it is at least more probable than the opposite opinion, which can not account in any way for the regularities which have been observed.
La Place, an eminent mathematician, saw that there are at least five great regularities pervading the system, for which Buffon's theory gave no reason: 1.
It was evident, even to the believers in chance, that so many regularities were not produced by accident.
Certain regularitiesattend the corresponding property of the melting-point.
Other regularities exist, but generally with many exceptions.
Hence within narrow limits Kopp's determinations were carried out under coincident conditions, and therefore any regularities presented by the critical volumes should be revealed in the specific volumes at the boiling-point.
In the same way we can set up fundamental laws in psychology which are not included in the separate regularities of phenomena, because they can only be gained from a general view of the whole of such phenomena.
It is of course self-evident that we may consider as laws only such regularities that lie within the process of consciousness, and not such as lie outside of consciousness, e.
We are only allowed to consider those regularities in phenomena as according to law, which always repeat themselves in exactly the same manner.
The regularities of nature, it is thought, leave no room for miracle.
They are the hypothetical substratum of those regularities of conduct which the activities of individuals display.
It used to be said that "the laws of Nature are the thoughts of God"; now we say that they are the investigator's formulae summing up regularities of recurrence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regularities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
