 | Medicine - 1848 - 586 pages
...antecedents which determined it, and but for which it would not have happened. The real cause is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...except the single one of eating the food, were not events (that is, instantaneous changes,or successions of instantaneous changes),but states, possessing... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Free will and determinism - 1849 - 206 pages
...antecedents under the denomination of cause, calling the others merely conditions." "The real cause is the whole of these antecedents; and we have philosophically...cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." " If we do not, when aiming at accuracy, enumerate all the conditions, it is only because some of them... | |
 | William Addison - Lymphatics - 1849 - 384 pages
...to denominate them the cause ; whereas the real cause is the whole of the antecedents; and we have no right to give the name of cause to one of them exclusively of the others. Thus, if a man eat of a particular dish, and die in consequence, that is, would not have died if he... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 578 pages
...antecedents which determined it, and but for which it would not have happened. The real Cause is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...Cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." — Vol. I. pp. 339, 340. He proceeds to analyze several instances of what is usually termed causation,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...antecedents which determined it, and but for which it would not have happened. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...changes, or successions of instantaneous changes) but ttates, possessing more or less of permanency ; and might therefore have preceded the effect by an... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 510 pages
...antecedents under the denomination of a Cause, calling the others merely Conditions. The real cause is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others. In practice, that particular condition is usually styled the cause, whose share in the matter is superficially... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Logic - 1864 - 480 pages
...must be fulfilled before the phenomenon can be reproduced. " The real Cause," says Mr. Mill, " is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative, taken together ;... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...must be fulfilled before the phenomenon can be reproduced. " The real Cause," says Mr. Mill, " is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Logic - 1864 - 472 pages
...must be fulfilled before the phenomenon can be reproduced. " The real Cause," says Mr. Mill, " is the whole of these antecedents ; and we have, philosophically...cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative, taken together ;... | |
 | James John Graham - Military art and science - 1864 - 498 pages
...perhaps even a certain state of the atmosphere, the conditions of the phenomenon. The real cause is the whole of these antecedents, and we have, philosophically...no right to give the name of cause to one of them exclusive of the others." — Vol. ip 399. " The fact which was dignified by the name of cause, was... | |
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The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents; and we have, philosophically speaking, no right to give the name of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others. 
