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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

1843 - 750 pages
...the phenomenon we wish to study. And the canon which regulates this method is the following : — " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...which it does not occur, have every circumstance, save one, in common, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the two...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 6

1843 - 744 pages
...the phenomenon we wish to study. And the canon which regulates this method is the following : — " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it docs not occur, have every circumstance, save one, in common, that one occurring only in the former;...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 624 pages
...the regulating principle of the Method of Difference may be expressed as follows : — SECOND CANON. If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an ¿instance in which it doss not occur, have crery circumstance sane sne in common, that one occurring only in, the former...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 40

1846 - 506 pages
...instances agree, is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." "If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, 1846.] Causation. 371 After some excellent chapters on the deductive method, empirical laws, the doctrine...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 5; Volume 40

1846 - 512 pages
...instances agree, is the cause, (or effect) of the given phenomenon." — p. 224. Second Canon, or " Method of Difference." " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occur*, 1846.] Causation. 371 After some excellent chapters on the deductive method, empirical laws,...
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Public Economy for the United States

Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 pages
...circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon. 2. " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...in which it does not occur, have every circumstance save one in common, that one occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the two...
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A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 1

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 508 pages
...in one point, appears from Mr. Mill's statement of its principle. The following is his canon of the Method of Difference : ' If an instance in which the...in which it does not occur, have every circumstance save one in common, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two...
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The Art of Reasoning: A Popular Exposition of the Principles of Logic

Samuel Neil - 1853 - 314 pages
...manifestations were the result of the excitation. The following is the formulary of this method : " If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...in which it does not occur have every circumstance except the one in common, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance in which they alone...
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Humanics

Thomas Wharton Collens - 1860 - 382 pages
...agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. 2. Method of Difference. SECOND CANON. — If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation...which it does not occur, have every circumstance, saw ONE, IN COMMON, that ONE occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in which alone the fcw'instances...
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Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic

William Stebbing - 1864 - 188 pages
...The second canon is that of the Method of Difference, viz. : If an instance in which the phenomenon occurs and an instance in which it does not occur have every circumstance in common, save one, and that on$ occurs only in the former, that one circumstance is the effect or the cause, or a necessary...
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