 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...countries and in all ages, and we consider the one as the cause of the other. 2. Method of difference. If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common, save one, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which the two instances... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - Logic - 1888 - 160 pages
...instances, in other respects similar, in which it does not occur. The canon, as stated by Mill, is : jp' If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...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... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - Belief and doubt - 1879 - 378 pages
...will only be necessary to quote two of them—the first and the second. They run as follows : 'If any instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1880 - 576 pages
...circumstance is invariably followed by suffocation. The Method of Difference is here employed. Its canon is: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have ever ycircumstance in common • save one, that one occurring only in the former: the circumstance... | |
 | Canada - 1880 - 696 pages
...suit, and still defends the Senate. It is a canon of inductive logic, as expounded by Mr. Mill, that " If an instance 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 only in the former, the circumstance... | |
 | Canada - 1880 - 702 pages
...•defends the Senate. It is a canon of inductive logic, as expounded by Mr. Mill, that " If an instance 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 only in the former, the circumstance... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1881 - 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...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... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Logic - 1883 - 584 pages
...circumstance in which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. SECOND CANON. If an instance in which the phenomenon...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... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1887 - 742 pages
...antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. The next refers to the method of difference. It runs : " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...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... | |
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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... 
