 | William Smith - 1872 - 930 pages
...phenomenon under investigation have only ant circumstance in common, the circumstance in which nlunt all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, in applying this to any practical case, how can we be possibly certain that any two instances... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 166 pages
...of Agreement. Its canon is : — " I. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under iuvestigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — Vol. i., p. 422. A bird in the air breathes ; plunged into carbonic acid gas, it ceases to breathe.... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 928 pages
...phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in ic/iicJi abme all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, in applying this to any practical case, how can we be possibly certain that any two instances... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 pages
...causes the production of soap.' Mr Mill states the method of Agreement in a formal canon as follows : If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given plienomenon. By the method of Difference is meant the process of comparing two sets of circumstances... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1875 - 134 pages
...connected by an invariable law.' First Canon. (Method of Agreement?) If two or more instances of thc phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. For instance, to follow up Mr. Mill's plan, let A, B, C, D, E, &c., represent the antecedents, and... | |
 | 1893 - 578 pages
...amendments which I propose. First, then, of the METHOD OF AGREEMENT. Mill's Canon runs thus : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ". This is illustrated by the formula : — ABC ADE abc ade production of a, since a has occurred without... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1876 - 132 pages
...(Logic, Vol. 2, p. 428) is : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation ha\e only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause of the phenomenon." Thus (letting the capital letters represent antecedents, and the lower-case letters,... | |
 | 1878 - 916 pages
...following words,* which many an anxious candidate for academic honours has committed to memory : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...the following words,1 which many an anxious candidate for academic honors has committed to memory: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1878 - 374 pages
...Induction, is that which Mr Mill has aptly called the Method of agreement. It depends upon the rule that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given pherfomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, I think, be more briefly... | |
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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. 
