Colligation

[kɒli'geiʃәn]

Definition

(noun.) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis.

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Definition

(n.) A binding together.

(n.) 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.

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