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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
COLLIGATION
n.
A
binding
together.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
COLLIGATION
Col
`
li
*
ga
"tion, n.
Etym:
[L. colligatio.]
1. A
binding
together.
Sir
T. Browne.
2. (
Logic
)
Defn:
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.
Colligation
is
not
always
induction,
but
induction
is
always
colligation.
J. S.
Mill.
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