 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Logic - 1883 - 584 pages
...ex hypothesi they can not possibly work upon any material but universal propositions. FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. SECOND CANON. If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 1102 pages
...laws of the Four Experimental Methods, and are exposed in five canons. §11. First Canon of Induction. Method of Agreement. If two or more instances of the...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 - Logic - 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... | |
 | 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 - Logic - 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
...laws of the Four Experimental Methods, and are exposed in five canons. §11. First Canon of Induction. Method of Agreement. If two or more instances of the...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 - Logic - 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."... | |
 | Education guild of Great Britain and Ireland - 1885 - 384 pages
...on this matter, and 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...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 Veitch - Logic - 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."... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1887 - 702 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, the 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. 
