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Webster 1913 Edition
Colligation
Colˊli-ga′tion
,Noun.
[L.
colligatio
.] 1.
A binding together.
Sir T. Browne.
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.
Colligation
is not always induction, but induction is always colligation
. J. S. Mill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Colligation
COLLIGATION
,Noun.