colligation

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colligation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Colligation \Col`li*ga"tion\, n. [L. colligatio.]
     1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne.
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     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.
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              Colligation is not always induction, but induction
              is always colligation.                --J. S. Mill.
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colligation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  colligation
      n 1: the state of being joined together [syn: junction,
           conjunction, conjugation, colligation]
      2: the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis