 | William James Taylor - 1909 - 342 pages
...nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect or the cause, or an...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." This might be described as a process of comparison by the method of difference of sets of positive and negative... | |
 | James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 550 pages
...nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." By the help of this method, the weakness which has already been noticed in the method of Agreement... | |
 | Adam Leroy Jones - 1909 - 332 pages
...Cases like these illustrate the Method of Difference. Mill's statment of the Canon of this method is : effect or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." Its axioms, in the words of the same writer, are: " Whatever antecedent can be excluded without preventing... | |
 | John Adams - 1910 - 448 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon " — he is expounding; but he proceeds to illustrate when he goes on to say: — "If ABC, ADE, AFG... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. (Mill's second Canon.) Both the Method of Agreement and the Method of Difference are methods of elimination.... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 930 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. (c) Joint Method. — If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1912 - 332 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon^ The principle is clearer and more apprehensible in the concrete example than in the abstract statement... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - 376 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect,...cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon."1 Again he means, of course, " every circumstance in common save one," and the circumstance... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1912 - 312 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of tlic cause, of the phenomenon)The principle is clearer and more apprehensible in the concrete example... | |
 | J. Welton - 1910 - 344 pages
...absence of that " circumstance ; the circumstance in which alone the "two sets of instances diifer, is the effect, or the " cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the " phenomenon." Symbolic formula. Mill gives no formula for this method, and several have been suggested which more... | |
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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... 
