Chapter Xiv. _of the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of

Nature; and of Hypotheses._

§ 1. Can all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law? 3

2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distinguishable feelings of our nature 4

3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained 7

4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses 8

5. Their indispensableness 16

6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypotheses 18

7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really inductive 25