| 1921 - 472 pages
...cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. (See Herschel, Discourse, [146-148.].)1 Second Canon.- li an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon. (See Herschel, Discourse, [156.].)1 Third Canon. — If two or more instances in which the phenomenon... | |
| H. Coleman - 1870 - 156 pages
...given phenomenon. 2. Method of Difference. — The canon of the Method of Differences is as follows : if an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. 3. Canon of the method of Residues. — Subduct fiom any phenomenon such part as is known by previous... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 420 pages
...difficulty, and is known as the Method of Difference. It is stated in Mr Mill's Second Canon as follows : — "If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." In other words, we may say that the antecedent which is invariably present when the phenomenon follows,... | |
| Alfred Swinbourne - 1875 - 224 pages
...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 cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of that phenomenon.' Here the instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs is the ' kicking... | |
| Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1875 - 134 pages
...have every circumstance in common save one, that one occnrring only in the former ; the circumstances in which alone the two instances differ is the effect,...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. This method is not liable to the same defect as the former, for in this two instances will prove the... | |
| 1893 - 578 pages
...question is, how the Canon regulating its employment can be best expressed. Mill's statement is : — tion occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon ". The formula by which he illustrates the Canon — ABC BC abc be — may be looked at from two points... | |
| Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1876 - 132 pages
...absence of that circumstance ; the. circumstance Jn which alone the two sets of instances differ, is the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." (4) The Method of Residues, which proceeds \)y subtracting from any given phenomenon all the portions... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1879 - 364 pages
...difficulty, and is known as the Method of Difference. It is stated in Mr Mill's Second Canon as follows :— "If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." In other words, we may say that the antecedent which is invariably present when the phenomenon follows,... | |
| 1880 - 696 pages
...in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, had every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon." Perhaps science will uphold us in saying, that, in the present instance, the circumstance is an indispensable... | |
| 1880 - 702 pages
...jn which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, had every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon." Perhaps ecience will uphold us in saying, that, in the present instance, the circumstance is an indispensable... | |
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