Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863)

In his essays and fiction for children, Kingsley champions inductive reason, the process of making generalizations from specific observations, and criticizes deductive reason, the process of arriving at definite conclusions on the basis of general theories. For Kingsley, in deriving a general axiom...

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Main Author: Laura H. Clarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2020-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/8211
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