These uniformities are not less than those which statistics reveal in disease and death and other events classed as not under the control of the will.
All organization implies uniformities of conduct, and therefore continuous discipline.
Nevertheless, if our preceding considerations be correct, the uniformities in social relations admit of the establishment of certain general rules which the moral man will follow under most circumstances.
He calls attention to the necessary character of human action as evidenced by its uniformities under uniform circumstances, in the various important relations of life.
The materialist calls triumphant attention to the constancy of material phenomena, and proves, by careful comparison with cooerdinate psychical phenomena, the uniformities in the latter.
It does not deny the fact that we can discriminate in the contents of our perceptions the uniformities of their components and relations, in short, that similar elements are present in these ever new complexes.
Moreover, there lie in the repeated perceptions not only uniformities of sequence, but also uniformities of the qualitative content of the successive events themselves, and these uniformities also must be apprehended through abstraction.
It arises rather through the fact that, in the course of repeated perceptions, we apprehend through abstraction the uniformities of their temporal relation.
The forces whose existence we assume have then an intuitable content only in so far as they get it through the uniformities present in repeated perceptions, which uniformities are to be "explained" through them.
In this search science has been remarkably successful, and it may be conceded that such uniformities have held hitherto.
That which makes no such difference of impression, such as the great uniformities of time and {98} space, makes no immediate impression upon us.
We only know of the existence of those uniformities by inference from our perceptions of sequences or of relative difference.
Otherwise, in each case, he confesses that 'we can learn nothing more than that here is one of the uniformities in the order of phenomena'.
The uniformitiesof nature have the effect upon man, through his nervous organization, of developing a responsive feeling and action.
The effect of the uniformities of nature upon man, as George Eliot regarded them, is not quite that which would be inferred from these words alone.
All her theories were based fundamentally on the hypothesis of universal law, which she probably interpreted with Lewes, in his Foundations of a Creed, as the uniformities of Infinite Activity.
If, therefore, from the laws of space and number, we were able to deduceuniformities of any other description, this would be conclusive evidence to us that those other uniformities possessed the same degree of rigorous certainty.
Fortunately, we are much better informed as to the empirical laws of the phenomena, that is, the uniformities respecting which we cannot yet decide whether they are cases of causation or mere results of it.
There are of course no means of applying such a test as that above described, unless we already possess a general knowledge of the prevalent character of the uniformities existing throughout nature.
They can only be made instrumental to that purpose when we combine with them additional premisses, expressive of uniformities of succession already known.
From these three uniformitieswe should be able to predict another uniformity, namely, the rise of the mercury in the Torricellian tube.
As a matter of fact, there are observed uniformities in regard to volitions; thus there is some empirical evidence that volitions are determined.
What I deny is that science assumes the existence of invariable uniformities of sequence of this kind, or that it aims at discovering them.
This will be inferred from the observed fact that approximate uniformities can be stated for this system alone.
They are not arbitrarily devised but constructed according to the laws of the uniformities that dominate existence.
Reason is the key to the universe, because it is the reflex of cosmic order, and the cosmic order, the intrinsic regularity and immanent harmony of the uniformities of nature, is not a subjective illusion but an objective reality.
They were fostered also by the activity of the marvel-loving impulse, which is unresponsive to the uniformities of nature, and favors mystic fable, while overlooking sensible fact.
We can say no more than before whether the uniformities are as absolutely necessary as they have become to our thought relatively necessary.
Besides, no rigorous inductive system can be applied to the uniformities of coexistence, since there is no general axiom related to them, as is the law of causation to those of succession, to serve as a basis for such a system.
Consequently they come under the definition of Empirical Laws, equally with uniformities not known to be laws of causation.
The uniformity of the course of nature is a complex fact made up of all the separate uniformities in respect to single phenomena.
It is a condition of the whole organism; and, when analysed, it exhibits uniformities of coexistence between its different elements.
But there are some uniformities of coexistence, viz.
The law of universal causation is, in fact, a generalisation from many partial uniformities of sequence.
In particular, the uniformities of coexistence and sequence which obtain between effects depending on different primaeval causes, vary along with any variation in the collocation of these causes.
Laws of nature, in the aggregate, are the fewest general propositions from which all the uniformities in the universe might be deducted.
Uniformities of Coexistence not dependent on Causation 94 XXIII.
Besides uniformities of succession, which always depend on causation, there are uniformities of coexistence.
The connection of experienced past uniformity with expectation as to the future is just one of those uniformities of sequence which we have observed to be true hitherto.
Among observed causal laws is this, that observation ofuniformities is followed by expectation of their recurrence.
The approximate uniformities which lead to its pre-scientific employment may turn out to be true in all but very rare and exceptional circumstances, perhaps in all circumstances that actually occur.
The particular uniformities which we mentioned before, such as lightning being followed by thunder, are not found to be free from exceptions.
Unsupported bodies in air fall, unless they are balloons or aeroplanes; but the principles of mechanics give uniformities which apply to balloons and aeroplanes just as accurately as to bodies that fall.
The first step is the discovery of approximate unanalysed uniformities of sequence or coexistence.
The so-called laws of nature are not commands; they are uniformities which resemble commands only in so far as they may be supposed to have been ordered by some intelligent being.
Such are the laws of nature, or the uniformities of co-existence and succession in natural phenomena.
There is a figurative application of the word 'law,' to the uniformities of the natural world, through which, the field of jurisprudence and morals has been deluged with muddy speculation.
The different natures of different things we do not fully know, but we distinguish them by the different uniformities we observe, and in order to explain our experience we assume the unity underlying these perceived likenesses.
These two laws are of course uniformities of Nature.
As a man of science, he would state these observed uniformities in the hypothetical form rightly adopted by science: if a castle moves it tends to move in such and such a way.
And when we pass behind Olympian structures, and look into the cults which they served to federate, such uniformities as they present prove far too much.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uniformities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
