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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Colligation

· Col·li·ga·tion · IPA
01 n. A binding together.
  1. 1.
    A binding together.
  2. 2.
    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.(Logic)
    Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation.” — J. S. Mill.