Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation. Argumentation and Debate - Page 118by Craven Laycock, Robert Leighton Scales - 1904 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents. (See Herschel, Discourse, [158.].) ' Fifth Canon. — Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...connected with it through some fact of causation. (See Herschel, Discourse, [145.].) These Canons possess at least three grave defects. In discussing... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...Method here employed, may be properly called that of Concomitant Variations, and its canon is this:—" Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...connected with it through some fact of causation.' Having, in a former volume*, illustrated the nature of the inductive process in its lower stages, by... | |
| 1843 - 744 pages
...employed, may be properly called that of Concomitant Variations, and its canon is this : — " \\ hatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon...connected with it through some fact of causation. Having, in a former volume*, illustrated the nature of the inductive process in its lower stages, by... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1846 - 506 pages
...of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents." — p. 230. Fourth Canon (5th), or " Method of Concomitant Variations." " Whatever phenomenon...connected with it through some fact of causation."— p. 233. These four methods, says Mill, " are the only possible modes of experimental inquiry, of direct... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...Method of Concomitant Variations : it is regulated by the following canon : — ; . , . FIFTH CANON. Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or it connected with it through some fact of causation. The last clause is subjoined, because it by no... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 624 pages
...termed the Method of Concomitant Variations : it is regulated by the following canon : — FIFTH CANON. Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, in either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected, with it through »emé fact of... | |
| Calvin Colton - Economics - 1848 - 556 pages
...effect of the remaining antecedents. 5. " Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever an. other phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either...connected with it through some fact of causation." " These methods," says Mr. Mill, " are the only possible modes of experimental inquiry, of direct induction... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1850 - 616 pages
...die Method of Concomitant Variations : it is regulated by the following canon : — 1 FIFTH CANON. Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...in some particular manner, is either a cause or an eject of that plienomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation. The last clause... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...regulated by the following canon:— FIFTH CANON. Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner rohenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner,...connected with it through some fact of causation. The last clause is subjoined, because it by no means follows when two phenomena accompany each other... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 508 pages
...called by Mr. Mill the Method of Concomitant Variations, the principle of which is thus stated : ' Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever...connected with it through some fact of causation.' (31) This method, again, is substantially only a particular case of the Method of Difference. Where... | |
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