• General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.

  Source: A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3

  John Stuart Mill
  English economist 1806-1873
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1. predictions
2. correspond
3. accuracy
4. though
5. often

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General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions. by : John Stuart Mill

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