Causation holds, we shall say, in every instance we have been able to test; therefore it probably holds in untested instances.
It represents, I believe, the same kind of advance as was introduced into physics by Galileo: the substitution of piecemeal, detailed, and verifiable results for large untested generalities recommended only by a certain appeal to imagination.
We have in my company's experimental grounds one virtually untested vessel which may be able to make a flight to Mars, or any other planet, in the time allowed.
You may be ready to expend even a dollar a plant for some untested and possibly valueless novelty, and yet be unwilling to give a dollar a hundred for the best standard variety in existence.
It stands, therefore, like all the other communications laid before the Home Secretary, untested by cross-examination.
Taylor, with special reference to his having used for twenty years untested copper, he said:— “But was the arsenic said to have been found in bottle 21 really in the copper used to prove its presence?
But, except through a yet untested fish-driving paddle, Terry had never heard of fish being herded by sound.
He'd put away the submarine microphone he'd just altered and was now taking out the still untested underwater horn.
An untested hypothesis,'" he quoted teasingly, but with a stirring anger.
To begin with, I have the scientific mind, and I cannot accept as a basis of argument an entirelyuntested hypothesis.
It was bad enough that they had to take out a ship like the Brainchild, untested and jerry-built as she was.
It was | | bad enough that they had to take out a ship like the | | Branchell, untested as she was.