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regularity|rɛgjʊˈlærɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity, perh. after F. régularité (14th c. in Littré).]
1. The state or character of being regular.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 67 Reason..causeth Morall vertues not to be impassibilities, but rather mediocrities and regularities. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 217 They..conceive a regularity in mutations,..and forget that variety which Physitians therein discover. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 14 He must..have had no knowledge of the Regularity of that Life she led at Rome. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 21 Different methods..have different effects on the figure and regularity of the crystals. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 175 [He was] present at the services in chapel two or three times a day with unfailing regularity. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. iv. (1885) 99 The regularity of nature is the first postulate of Science.
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1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place x. 457 The two conditions..are not jointly sufficient..to cause a memory even on the most extreme form of the regularity-theory of causation. 1935Aristot. Soc. Suppl. Vol. XIV. 47, I accept the rationalist view, because it seems to me the only alternative to the so-called regularity view—that which reduces causal inference to a mere psychological habit or instinct. 1951A. C. Ewing Fund. Questions Philos. (1968) viii. 162 All this should make one hesitate very much before accepting the regularity theory merely because it is the simplest and keeps closest to what is empirically observed. 1954A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. vi. 145 The same is true even on a ‘regularity’ view of causation. 1965Language XLI. 186 The second breakthrough [in linguistics] was achieved in the 1870's, in the emergence of what I shall call the regularity hypothesis. 1977M. Mandelbaum Anat. Hist. Knowl. iii. 50 Hart and Honoré drew a sharp contrast between the plain man's notion of causation..and the regularity view, which they accepted as being..applicable in the sciences. |