 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...the phenomenon under investigation have 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, The sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon 'is probably its cause. If we have an... | |
 | John Veitch - 1885 - 572 pagina’s
...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."... | |
 | John Veitch - 1885 - 598 pagina’s
...— 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) - 1887 - 702 pagina’s
...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 the phenomenon under investigation...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... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pagina’s
...approaches the least exact of the experimental methods whose canon is thus laid down by Mr Mill : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." But any conclusion arrived at from an inspection of this table will be a guess ; for Bacon curiously... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, Alfred Henry Killick - 1888 - 288 pagina’s
...question haveonly,in common, the presence of one other circumstance, that circumstance, in the presence of which alone all the instances agree, is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon. Its principle is — that of comparing different cases in which the given phenomenon occurs, in order... | |
 | William Smith - 1888 - 928 pagina’s
...phenomenon under invest ipatkm have only tmr. circumstance in common, the circumstance in which <tl<wt all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon/' Now, in applying this to any practical caw, how an we he possibly certain that any two instances have... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pagina’s
...approaches the least exact of the experimental methods whose canon is thus laid down by Mr Mill: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." But any conclusion arrived at from an inspection of this table will be a guess; for Bacon curiously... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1889 - 544 pagina’s
...Method of Agreement. We cannot do better than formulate it in his own words : METHOD OF AGREEMENT. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Our readers will observe that in this law Mr. Mill goes beyond the requirements we have given above,... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1890 - 346 pagina’s
...following words, 1 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,... | |
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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. 
