Crossword clues for colligation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colligation \Col`li*ga"tion\, n. [L. colligatio.]
A binding together.
--Sir T. Browne.-
(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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A binding together. 2 (context logic English) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts. 3 (context linguistics English) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.
WordNet
n. the state of being joined together [syn: junction, conjunction, conjugation]
the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
Usage examples of "colligation".
The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.