PROFESSEUR AU COLLÈGE DE FRANCE

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF A FRIENDSHIP

FROM WHICH I HAVE REAPED THE

FRUITS OF DISCIPLESHIP

Sed quanquam utilitates multae et magnae

consecutae sunt, non sunt tamen ab earum spe

causae diligendi profectae.


PREFACE

In one of the most brilliant of modern books its author[[1]] calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that “if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it is more likely to correspond with the truth than three different principles which give adequate explanations of the same facts severally.”