 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 578 pages
...increases with the number and variety of the instances ". Prof. Fowler's amended canon runs thus : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one other circumstance in common, that circumstance may be regarded •with more or less of probability... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Induction (Logic) - 1876 - 400 pages
...one another through some fact of causation. We now proceed to the statement of the Inductive Methods. METHOD OF AGREEMENT. ' If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have!-only one other circumstance in common, that circumstance may be regarded, with more or less of... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 616 pages
...the following words,1 which many an anxious candidate for academic honors has committed to memory: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1878 - 916 pages
...following words,* which many an anxious candidate for academic honours has committed to memory : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1878 - 374 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...instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given pherfomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, I think, be more briefly... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1879 - 364 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, 1 think, be more briefly expressed by saying... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - Logic - 1888 - 160 pages
...which a given phenomenon /, ) H'-roccurs, f The canon as stated by Mill (Logic, vol. i., p. 428) is : "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause of the phenomenon." JfThus (letting the capital letters represent antecedents, and the lowercase letters,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1881 - 364 pages
...Inductioa 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, 1 think, be more briefly expressed by saying... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 674 pages
...Method of Agreement ; and we may adopt as its regulating principal the following canon : FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the cireumstance in which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1887 - 742 pages
...on this matter, and which 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...agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ; " or, more briefly, ihe sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. The next... | |
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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. 
