 | 1843 - 750 pages
...consigned to comparative obscurity among the common herd of conditions. But, secondly, invariable sequence is not synonymous with causation, unless the sequence, besides being invariable, is also unconditional. This destroys the force of Reid's objection to the former part of the definition... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things. • * * * That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when,...is not the cause, even although no case should have occurred in which the phenomena took place without it. "Invariable sequence, therefore, is not synonymous... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things. * * * * That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when,...is not the cause, even although no case should have occurred in which the phenomena took place without it "Invariable sequence, therefore, is not synonymous... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...necessary in this sense. It is conditional upon the occurrence of other antecedents. That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when,...sequence, therefore, is not synonymous with causation, j unless the sequence, besides being invariable, is unconditional. There/ ,*'. are sequences as uniform... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pages
...antecedent or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. Invariable sequence, therefore, is not synonymous...sequence, besides being invariable, is unconditional. The motion of the earth in a given orbit round the sun, is a series of changes which follow one another... | |
 | Thomas Squire Barrett - 1871 - 252 pages
...condi' tioual on the occurrence of other ' antecedents. . . . 2. ' Invariable sequence, there' fore, is not synonymous with ' causation, unless the sequence, ' besides being invariable, is uncon' ditional. . . . 3. ' We may define, therefore, the ' cause of a phenomenon to be the ' antecedence,... | |
 | Thomas Squire Barrett - 1872 - 256 pages
...not necessary in this sense. It is conditional on the occurrence of other antecedents. . . •. 2. ' Invariable sequence, therefore, is not synonymous...unless the sequence, ' besides being invariable, is uncon' ditional. . . . 3. ' We may define, therefore, the ' cause of a phenomenon to be the ' antecedence,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 522 pages
...This, it will be seen, agrees with Mr. Lewes's admirable view of Necessity, cited above in Chapter III. only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it." Now, either... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 496 pages
...This, it will bo seen, agrees with Mr. Lewcs's admirable view of Necessity, cited above iu Chapter 111. only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it." Now, either... | |
 | John Fiske - 1875 - 496 pages
...This, it will be seen, agrees with Mr. Leweg's admirable view of Neceitity, cited above in Chapter III. only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it." Now, either... | |
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It is conditional on the occurrence of other antecedents. That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon... 
