 | 1843 - 750 pages
...the Method of Concomitant Variations. The Method of Agreement rests upon the following canon : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." As an example of this method, Mr. Mill selects Professor Liebig's experimental inquiry into the immediate... | |
 | 1921 - 472 pages
...". (Logic, bk. 3, ch. 9, § 3.) The following are Mill's Canons (bk. 3, ch. 8):— First Canon. — If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. (See Herschel, Discourse, [146-148.].)1 Second Canon.- li an instance in which the phenomenon under... | |
 | 1843 - 744 pages
...rests upon the following canon :— " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigat'on have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." As an example of this method, Mr. Mill selects Professor Liebig's experimental inquiry into the immediate... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
...canons for making this discovery : but speaks of them as four. First Canon, or "Method of Agreement." "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." "If an instance in which the phenomenon under... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...as four. First Canon, or " Method of Agreement." "If two or more instances of the phenomenon und«r investigation have only one circumstance in common,...is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." " If an instance in which the phenomenon under... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 pages
...the following canon:— FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of tlie. phenomenon under inrestigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we shall almost immediately return, we proceed... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 pages
...instances of the phenomenon under investigation hate only &nc circumstance in common, the circumstance i» which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the giren phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we shall almost immediately... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 pages
...in the position of a science. We cite the canons, thus employed, from Mr. Mill, as follow: — 1. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...agree is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon. 2. " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1850 - 616 pages
...Method of Agreement: and we may adopt as its regulating principle the following canon: — FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we shall almost immediately return, we proceed... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 508 pages
...may be the true cause of a. The canon of this method is stated by Mr. Mill in the following terms : ' If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause of the given phenomenon.^59) The conclusiveness of this method, therefore, depends on the determination... | |
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If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. 
