Definition of "colligating" []

• Present participle of colligate. (verb)

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• "It is Whewell's contention that as new colligating ideas emerge in the history of science, the principles in which they are embedded become necessary."
• "Genuine progress in science depends not so much upon simple generalization from observed data as from the locating by inventive genius new colligating concepts."
• "Whewell claimed that a large part of the history of science is the “history of scientific ideas,” that is, the history of their explication and subsequent use as colligating concepts."