| William Chambers - 1884 - 850 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...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. By the method of Difference is meant the process of comparing two sets of circumstancesone containing... | |
| Alfred Sidgwick - 1884 - 434 pages
...the support of such comparatively timid assertions as these. The lilethod of Agreement. CANON. — If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause {or effect) of the given phenomenon. It is obvious, in the first place, where the simple Method of Agreement fails. Its ' characteristic... | |
| Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 1102 pages
...Experimental Methods, and are exposed in five canons. §11. First Canon of Induction. Method of Agreement. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. In other words, The sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon 'is probably its cause. If we have an... | |
| Alfred Sidgwick - 1884 - 420 pages
...for the support of such comparatively timid assertions as these. The Method of Agreement. CANON. — If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or ejfecf) of the given phenomenon. It is obvious, in the first place, where the simple Method of Agreement... | |
| Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pages
...Experimental Methods, and are exposed in five canons. §11. First Canon of Induction. Method of Agreement. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in ivhich alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. In other words,... | |
| John Veitch - 1885 - 572 pages
...the main put more clearly. The First Method — called the Method of Agreement — is thus stated : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ; " or, as it has been put, — " the sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause."... | |
| John Veitch - 1885 - 598 pages
...— called the Method of Agreement — is thus stated : " If two or more instances of the phuenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in...agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ; " or, as it has been put, — " the sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause."... | |
| Education guild of Great Britain and Ireland - 1885 - 384 pages
...which are to he found in the chapters referred to. The first is the rule for the Method of Agreement : "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...in common- the circumstance in which alone all the instancesagree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon " — or, more briefly, the sole invariable... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - 702 pages
...are to be found in the chapters referred to. The first is the rule for the method of agreement : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ; " or, more briefly, the sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. The next... | |
| Alfred James Swinburne - 1887 - 224 pages
...know the bite came first, so it must be the cause. This put into formal language becomes : ' — ' If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...circumstance in common, the circumstance in which all the instances agree is the cause or the effect of the given phenomenon.' Here phenomenon = madness... | |
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