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In an essay for his moral philosophy class, which drew heavily on Playfair's account of Bacon, Forbes called Bacon a singular instance, because the right methodology could only be invented once. And 'the system of Bacon . . 29Like Playfair and Herschel, Forbes thought the inductive method should be as quantitative as possible. In 1841 he examined his third division on Herschel's Preliminary 23 David B. 31In his lectures, he considered but did not endorse Whewell's version of induction. Regarding the laws of motion — Whewell's strongest case for inductive truths established a priori Forbes told his class: `The science of dynamics is founded upon three fundamental axioms called the laws of motion.
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