 | Arthur Pap - 2006 - 438 pagina’s
...meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness—That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when,...third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it. (Mill 1851,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1869 - 554 pagina’s
...then ignored. But what say the masters of scientific logic ? Mr. Mill writes : " That which will be followed by a given consequent, when and only when...occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it."* And, again, "whatever antecedent cannot be excluded without preventing the phenomenon, is the cause,... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1907 - 682 pagina’s
...hypothesis, and meet objections levelled against it? 9. Examine Mill's view that "invariable sequence is not synonymous with causation unless the sequence, besides being invariable, is unconditional." 10. Explain what is meant by (a) the plurality of causes, (6) the intermixture of effects. Show how... | |
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That which will be followed by a given consequent when, and only when, some third circumstance also exists, is not the cause, even though no case should ever have occurred in which the phenomenon took place without it. 
