CONTENTS 



OP 

 THE SECOND VOLUME. 



;BOOK in. 



ON INDUCTION. (Continued.) 



CHAPTER XIV. Of tie Limits to the Explanation of Laws, of 

 Nature ; and of Hypotheses. 



PASH 



1. CAN 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 . . . 16 



6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypo- 



, theses . . . .18 



7. Some, inquiries apparently hypothetical are really in- 

 ductive . . . . . . .25 



CHAPTER XV. Of Progressive Effects ; and of the Continued 

 Action of Causes. 



1. How a progressive eifect results from the simple continu- 

 ance of the cause . . . . . .29 



2. and from the progressiveness of the cause . . 33 



3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law * 36 



CHAPTER XVI. Of Empirical Laws. 



1. Definition of an empirical law . . . 38 



2. Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations '. 39 

 3: The collocatio'ns of the permanent causes are not reducible 



to an^ law . . . . . 41 



