Sentence examples for principle of uniformity from inspiring English sources

The publication in 1859 of the conclusions of Darwin and British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on the origin of species extended the principle of uniformity to the plant and animal kingdoms.

Although the principle of uniformity is correct in that physical laws have not changed over geologic time, Earth's behaviour has changed as temperatures have fallen, with the consequence that the extent of igneous activity and movement of Earth's crust has changed during geologic time.

For Hume, the principle of uniformity is a supposition implicit in all of our inductive inferences leading to the formulation of laws of nature.

The principle of uniformity, however, is firmly based in custom or habit, as a universal principle of the human mind, and it is also the foundation for the Newtonian inductive method including Hume's own inductive science of the human mind.

The normative component of Hume's project is striking here: That the principle of uniformity of nature cannot be proved deductively or inductively shows that it is not the principle that drives our causal reasoning only if our causal reasoning is sound and leads to true conclusions as a "natural effect" of belief in true premises.

More specifically, the Analogies of Experience provide an a priori conception of the unity and uniformity of experience playing the role, for Kant, of Hume's principle of the uniformity of nature.

The physical meaning of the phenomenological principle of the uniformity of temperature difference field is discussed for the two-stream heat exchangers, and the uniformity principle of temperature difference field is proved directly.

Most of the criticism centred on Ptolemy's violation of the Aristotelian principle of the uniformity of the celestial motions.

If, however, causal reasoning were fallacious, the principle of the uniformity of nature might well be among its principles.

George Schlesinger (1990) uses the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic properties to state a non-trivial version of Mill's principle of the uniformity of nature, though Schlesinger gives his distinction a different name.

Based on the same principle of tasks uniformity, we propose a new scheduling algorithm, simpler to implement and more adapted to topological algorithm implementation.