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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Colligation \Col`li*ga"tion\, n. [L. colligatio.] 1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Logic) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. [bd]The colligation of facts.[b8] --Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. --J. S. Mill. | |
