§ 1. The deductive operation by which we derive the law of an effect from the laws of the causes, of which the concurrence gives rise to it, may be undertaken either for the purpose of discovering the law, or of explaining a law already discovered. The word explanation occurs so continu...
Before quitting the subject of connotative names, it is proper to observe, that the first writer who, in our own times, has adopted from the schoolmen the word to connote , Mr. Mill, in his Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , employs it in a signification different from that...