'Colligation' definitions:

Definition of 'colligation'

(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being joined together [syn: junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation]
noun
The connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis

Definition of 'Colligation'

From: GCIDE
  • Colligation \Col`li*ga"tion\, n. [L. colligatio.]
  • 1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. "The colligation of facts." --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
  • Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]

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