...Gestalteten, zeigen (insofern) die physil kalischen Agentien der Umgebung, den Character und die Ursache, „the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative,...contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequence invariably follows" (s. Mill), in Differenzirungen manifestirt, für die Manifestationen...

...the cause," is only a part of it, and he adds that, adequately taken, " the cause is the sum-total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together;...realized, the consequent invariably follows." The practical difficulty is to know where to stop in the attempt at such an exhaustive method of enumeration...

...only in co-operation with the others. The cause of an event is in reality, as Mr. Mill expresses it, " the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...the contingencies of every description, which, being realised, the effect invariably follows." This is evident from the fact that if any of those conditions...

...that a cause may operate. 111 the language of Inductive Logic, the cause is defined as " the sum-total of the conditions positive and negative taken together...the contingencies of every description, which, being realised, the consequent invariably follows. But it is common to single out one only of the antecedents,...

...word cause in a different meaning from that of ordinary speech. It is quite true that " the cause, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the contingencies of every description, which being realised, the consequent invariably follows". But this does not imply any discrepancy between the scientific...

...doing so it removed a resisting power whicli would have prevented the surprise." I cannot think that The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...whole of the contingencies of every description, which heing realised, the consequent inlt would be wrong to say that the event took place because the sentinel...

...facts which must be absent if the consequent is to take place. The full definition of cause, therefore, is, "the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together, upon which the consequent invariably follows." This view of causation does away with the absolute distinction...

...philosophically speaking, " no right to give the name of cause to one of them, ex" clusively of the others. . . . The cause, then, philosophically " speaking, is the...consequent " invariably follows. The negative conditions . . . may all " be summed up under one head, namely, the absence of " preventing or counteracting causes...

...where experiment is impossible, some name should be found more appropriate than " experimental." tions positive and negative taken together, the whole of...being realized, the consequent invariably follows." But the methods never isolate a cause in this sense ; it is only the empirical cause — some single...

...which Mr. Mill asserts invariability of succession are states of the universe. "The cause," he says, "is the sum total of the conditions, positive and...whole of the contingencies of every description." "The state of the whole universe at any instant, we believe to be the consequence of itsj state at...