Our savants to-day who work Deductively on these data from henceforth changeless and inviolate, exactly recall on a much larger scale the theologians of the ancient world.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
In an experimental science, the inductions, as we have said, lie detached, as, a a mark of b, c a mark of d, e a mark of f, and so on: now, a new set of instances, and a consequent new induction, may at any time bridge over the interval between two of these unconnected arches; b, for example, may be ascertained to be a mark of c, which enables us thenceforth to prove Deductively that a is a mark of c.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
Another mode of stating it would be thus: What are the fewest general propositions from which all the uniformities which exist in the universe might be Deductively inferred?
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill