...effect. The rule defining the kind of conjunction required is expressed in Mill's enunciation thus : ' If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumAgreement (legal): see CONTRACT. stance in which alone all these instances agree is the cause(or...

...John Stuart Mill in the five " canons " that are known by his name. " I. The Canon of Agreement. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." In an epidemic of typhoid the only circumstance in which all the cases are found to agree is the use of...

...John Stuart Mill in the five " canons " that are known by his name. " I. The Canon of Agreement. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." In an epidemic of typhoid the only circumstance in which all the cases are found to agree is the use of...

...circumstance in common [and if that phenomenon is always produced by the same circumstance ; then] the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.'i To put it more symbolically : If all the antecedents in one case can be represented by...

...something to do with the lower temperature. Mill's canon for the method of agreement is this: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common [and if that phenomenon is always produced by the same circumstance ; then] the circumstance in which...

...Jevons, and are quoted from his " Lessons in Logic " as follows: — " i. Method of agreement. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon, ie the sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. " 2. Method of difference....

...Agreement Its canon is : — '"I. If two or more instances of -the phenomenon under investigation havo only one circumstance in common, the circumstance...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.' " — HILL'S Logic, i. 422. * ' A bird in the air breathes ; plunged into carbonic acid gas, it ceases...

...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...

...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...

...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 investigation...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,...