 | 1880 - 702 pages
...investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, had every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon." Perhaps ecience will uphold us in saying, that, in the present instance, the circumstance is an indispensable... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1881 - 364 pages
...investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." In other words, we may say that the antecedent which is invariably present when the phenomenon follows,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1882 - 372 pages
...that circumstance ; the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances (always or invariably) differ, is the effect, or the cause. or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." I have inserted the words in parentheses, as without them the canon seems to me to express exactly... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1883 - 568 pages
...investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance irijommon save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. THIRD CANON. If two or more instances in which -the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 742 pages
...investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." ' As Mr. Jevons remarks, this is essentially the great method of experiment, and its utility mainly... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - 1883 - 584 pages
...investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in]common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance...alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or tlie cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. THIRD CANON. If two or more instances... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 412 pages
...that my space prevents me from pursuing it at greater length. 1have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the tivo instances differ, is the effect, or cause, or a necessary part of the cause, of the phenomenon.... | |
 | Alfred Sidgwick - 1884 - 434 pages
...instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one only occurring in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. The Method of Difference may be called the sheet-anchor of empirical proof. "It ... appears to be by... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance alone in which the two instances differ is the effect or the cause,...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. In other words, The antecedent which is invariably present when the phenomenon follows and invariably... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 630 pages
...common save one, that one occurring only in the, former ; the circumstance alone in which the t^vo instances differ is the effect or the cause, or an...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. In other words, The antecedent which is invariably present when the phenomenon follows and invariably... | |
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If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ... 
