| John Hays Gardiner - 1912 - 332 pagina’s
...science, and most of our everyday arguments. The method of agreement has been defined as follows : If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon! 1 A. Sidgwick, Fallacies, New York, 1884, p. 342. A few examples, which might easily be multiplied,... | |
| Peter Coffey - 1912 - 376 pagina’s
...presumably essential, and therefore important, point. He formulated the rule in the following way : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...agree, is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon." He means, of course, "one circumstance in common " besides the phenomenon itself, which is common to... | |
| Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller - 1912 - 462 pagina’s
...The first of Mill's five methods is called that of Agreement and formulated as follows : l — (1) "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause of the given phenomenon." The second, the Method of Difference, runs thus : — (2) " If an instance... | |
| Alfred Sidgwick - 1914 - 270 pagina’s
...phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which atone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect} of the given phenomenon. The use of this Canon was called the Method of Agreement. 1 Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy,... | |
| Gerard Heymans - 1915 - 456 pagina’s
...geschlossen, daß Q die wahrscheinliche Ursache oder Mitone circumstance in common, the circumstancel in which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon" (Method of Agreement). 2. „If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 380 pagina’s
...argument to be a strong one of its kind. In A System of Logic he formulated the method as follows: If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.61 As Mill stated the case, the design argument was not drawn from "mere resemblances in... | |
| Louis A. Cox, Paolo F. Ricci - 1990 - 736 pagina’s
...the phenomena under investigations have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomena. circumstance in common." The notion o* a causal Dona Or linkage OOCS fifll SMIfl ÍO PlaV... | |
| Mark Blaug - 1992 - 324 pagina’s
...between the acts of mind involved in discovery and in proof." 10 The method of agreement states that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon"; the method of difference states that "If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,... | |
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