Even, therefore, such cases as these, are but examples of what I have called induction by parity of reasoning, that is, not really induction, because not involving inference of a general proposition from particular instances.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
Yet the Book of Discipline permits no other ceremony, at the induction of these mystically gifted men, than "the public approbation of the people, and declaration of the chief minister"-later there was no "chief minister," there was "parity" of ministers.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang
There is a freshness and a parity in the early dawn not found in the evening time, and the birds greet the purpling east with their sweetest songs.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand