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" The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. "
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ... - Page 198
by John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 600 pages
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The Art of Reasoning: A Popular Exposition of the Principles of Logic

Samuel Neil - 1853 - 314 pages
...are invariably consequent, must be the cause (or connected with the cause) of that effect." A cause " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...contingencies of every description — which being realised, the consequent follows." • See, for a debate on this topic, " British Controversialist,"...
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The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 6

1858 - 598 pages
...thing as an isolated cause producing isolated effects. Mills, in his incomparable logic, says : — " The cause then, philosophically speaking, is the sum...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. It is seldom, if ever, between a consequent and one single antecedent that this invariable sequence...
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Substance and Shadow: Or, Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life ...

Henry James - 1863 - 558 pages
...yourself a temporary reputation of success ? " The cause then, philosophically speaking," says Mr. Mill, " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...description which being realized, the consequent invariably follows."1 But what a caricature of our conception of cause this is ! " The sum total of all the conditions...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 4

Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...n'ya pas besoin d'en supposer un autre que 1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. 3. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness....
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Le positivisme anglais: étude sur Stuart Mill

Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 176 pages
...condition, voilà toute la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If ihere be any meauing which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is wiconditionatness....
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise: Les contemporains

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...d'en supposer un autre que 1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, $ien, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. 3. If there he any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness....
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Le positivisme anglais: étude sur Stuart Mill

Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 176 pages
...la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, ihen, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If Ihere be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the terni necessity, it is unconditionalness....
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A Treatise on Logic: Or, The Laws of Pure Thought; Comprising Both the ...

Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...right to give the name ' of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the sum of them, he ranks " the absence of preventing...
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A treatise on logic, or, The laws of pure thought

Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...right to give the name of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the sum of them, he ranks " the absence of preventing...
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A Treatise on Logic: Or, The Laws of Pure Thought; Comprising Both the ...

Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 pages
...right to give the name of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the sum of them, he ranks " the absence of preventing...
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