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Definition of Colligation
Colligation Colligation Col`li*ga"tion, n. [L. colligatio.]
1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne.
2. (Logic) 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. ``The colligation of facts.' --Whewell.
Colligation is not always induction, but induction
is always colligation. --J. S. Mill.