 | Aristotle - Fallacies (Logic) - 1866 - 278 pages
...it the method of agreement; and we may adopt as its regulating principle the following canon : — If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." For instance, let the problem be, to find the effect of a given cause : and let causes be represented... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...which precede or follow a phenomenon, those with which it is really connected by an invariable law. I. Method of Agreement. — If two or more instances...circumstance in common, the circumstance in which all the instances .igrw is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. II. Method of inference.... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Science - 1866 - 972 pages
...phenomenon, those with which it is really connected by an invariable law. I. Mtthml of Aijrnmmt. — 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 effect) of the given phenomenon. II. Method of Difference.... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 968 pages
...really connected by an invariable law. I. Method of Agra ment. — If two or more instances of the_ phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. II. Method of Difference.... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1870 - 376 pages
...Induction is that which Mr Mill has aptly called the Method of agreement. It depends upon the rule that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, I think, be more briefly expressed by saying... | |
 | H. Coleman - 1870 - 156 pages
...Agreement. — The Method of Agreement rests upon this canon : if two or more instances of the phenomena under investigation have only one circumstance in...is the cause [or effect] of the given phenomenon. 2. Method of Difference. — The canon of the Method of Differences is as follows : if an instance... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Logic - 1870 - 372 pages
...causation. We now proceed to the statement of the Inductive Methods. METHOD OF AGREEMENT. CANON 6. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...circumstance in which alone all the instances agree may be regarded, with more or less of probability , as the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...antecedent of crystallization. Here we have an example of the Method of Agreement. Its canon is : — ' " 1. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon," ' — MILL'S Logic, i. 422. Difference,1 of Residues,2 and of Concomitant Variations.3 These are the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...antecedent of crystallization. Here we have an example of the Method of Agreement. Its canon is :— ' " I. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or elTect) of the given phenomenon." '—MILL'S Logic, i. 422. Difference, 1 of Residues,2 and of Concomitant... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...antecedent of crystallization. Here we have an example of the Method of Agreement. Its canon is : — ' " I. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...only one circumstance in common, the circumstance iu which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." ' — MILL'S... | |
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If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. 
