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" If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ... "
History of English Literature - Page 389
by Hippolyte Taine - 1883
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The Principles of Logic

Herbert Austin Aikins - Logic - 1902 - 522 pages
...exclusion as used in this method of difference can be stated in the following abstract canon of Mill's: " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...an instance in which it does not occur, have every \other'\ circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance...
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A College Manual of Rhetoric

Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 476 pages
...investigation occurs and an instance in which it does not occur have every circumstance save one in common, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance...which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or cause, or a necessary part of the cause, of the phenomenon. " " The principle is that of comparing...
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The Principles of Logic

Herbert Austin Aikins - Logic - 1902 - 508 pages
...which happens to be here and not move another precisely like it which happens to be there. vestigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every \oiher~^ circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance...
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Argumentation and Debate

Craven Laycock, Robert Leighton Scales - Debates and debating - 1904 - 382 pages
...sole •' invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. "2. Method of difference. " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. "3. Joint method. " If two or more instances...
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Picture Logic: An Attempt to Popularise the Science of Reasoning by the ...

Alfred James Swinburne - English wit and humor - 1904 - 224 pages
...into formal language this becomes : — ' If an instance in which the phenomenon under investi gation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur,...have every circumstance in common save one, that one being present only in the former, the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect,...
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La Philosophie de l'histoire et la pratique historienne d'aujourd'hui

David Carr - Electronic books - 1982 - 407 pages
...requirements of the Method of Difference let me present Mill's formal statement of this method, viz: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...in which it does not occur, have every circumstance save one in common, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two...
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Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honour of A. Grünbaum

Robert S. Cohen, Larry Laudan - Medical - 1983 - 372 pages
...Bernard, against this method. The method of difference was stated by Mill in the following manner: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...two instances differ is the effect or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon (1959, p. 256). It should be noted that the application...
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Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge

Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1985 - 270 pages
...the methods whereby a causal relationship may be inferred, for example, by the method of differences: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...occur have every circumstance in common save one, that occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is ... the cause,...
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Theory and the Experimental Investigation of Social Structures

David Willer - Social Science - 1987 - 294 pages
...according to Mill, the method of experimentation. The cannon of that method Mill stated as follows: "lf an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon" (Mill, [1843] 1967:256 italics removed)....
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The Use of Human Beings in Research: With Special Reference to Clinical Trials

S.F. Spicker, Ilai Alon, A. de Vries, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. - Medical - 1988 - 326 pages
...System of Logic. In his "Second Canon," Mill formulates the Method of Difference: 148 STUART F. SPICKER If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon . . . ([33], p. 256). And a few pages later he...
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