CONTENTS 



OF 



THE SECOND VOLUME. 



BOOK III. 



ON INDUCTION. (Continued.) 



CHAPTER XIV. Of th&amp;lt;&amp;gt; Limits to the Explanation of Laws of 

 Nature; and of Hypotheses. 



Sin n J.T PAOB 



S i. LAX all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law ? 3 



2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distin 

 guishable feelings of our nature ... 4. 



3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained . 7 



4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses . . 8 



5. Their indispensableness ... 1(3 



6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypo 



theses ... 18 



7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really in 

 ductive ... 95 



CHAPTER XV. Of Progressive Effects; and of the Continued 

 Action of Causes. 



j 1. How a progressive effect results from the simple continu 

 ance of the cause .... 29 



2. and from the progressiveness of the cause 



3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law 



CHAPTER XVI. Of Empirical Laws. 



1. Definition of an empirical law . . . .38 



2. Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations . 39 



3. The collocations of the permanent causes are not reducible 



to any law . . . . . .41 



