'Colligation' definitions:
Definition of 'colligation'
From: WordNet
noun
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]