colligation
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Is colligation a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.Examples: "Induction is a term applied to describe the process of a true Colligation of Facts by means of an exact and appropriate Conception."; "the colligation of facts"; "In order to have knowledge of the physical world, we use our ideas and concepts as the "thread" on which we string the facts about the world, the "pearls." We do this by a process Whewell called colligation."countableuncountable
2. (linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.countableuncountable
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