| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...the Method of Concomitant Variations. The Method of Agreement rests upon the following canon : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." As an example of this method, Mr. Mill selects Professor Liebig's... | |
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...". (Logic, bk. 3, ch. 9, § 3.) The following are Mill's Canons (bk. 3, ch. 8):— First Canon. — If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. (See Herschel, Discourse, [146-148.].)1 Second Canon.- li an instance... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...rests upon the following canon :— " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigat'on have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." As an example of this method, Mr. Mill selects Professor Liebig's... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1846 - 506 pages
...canons for making this discovery : but speaks of them as four. First Canon, or "Method of Agreement." "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." "If an... | |
| Theology - 1846 - 512 pages
...as four. First Canon, or " Method of Agreement." "If two or more instances of the phenomenon und«r investigation have only one circumstance in common,...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." " If an... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 624 pages
...the following canon:— FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of tlie. phenomenon under inrestigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...which alone, all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we... | |
| Calvin Colton - Economics - 1848 - 556 pages
...in the position of a science. We cite the canons, thus employed, from Mr. Mill, as follow: — 1. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon. 2. " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation... | |
| Samuel Neil - Logic - 1853 - 314 pages
...respective bodies experimentalised upon, the causative agency exists. The eanon of this method is this : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone ah1 the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the phenomenon." II. METHOD OF DIFFERENCE. "Instead... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...following canon: — FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation havt only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1859 - 632 pages
...Method of Agreement: and we may adopt as its regulating principle the following canon: — FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the 'phenomenon under...circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone att the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present... | |
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