...regulating principle of the Method of Difference may be expressed as follows : SECOND CANON. If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circum. stance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable...

...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 does not occur, have evert/ circumstance in common lave one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in...

...The principle of this reasoning is the canon of the method as formulated by Mill : ' If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon ' (Logic, Bk. III. chap. viii. § 2). Literature : the term Method of Difference is due to JS MILL,...

...Elementary Lessons, xxviii. 3 This rule or ' canon ' was stated by Mill as follows : — "If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." The wording of the rule is somewhat obscure, but Mill's illustration of it removes all the vagueness...

...occurs, and au instance in which it does not occur, bare every circumstance in common save one, that oue occurring only in the former ; the circumstance in...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon." The wording of the rule is somewhat obscure, but Mill's illustration of it removes all the vagueness...

...investigation occurs and an instance in which it does not occur have every circumstance save one in common, that one occurring only in the former, the circumstance...which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or cause, or a necessary part of the cause, of the phenomenon. " " The principle is that of comparing...

...whereby a causal relationship may be inferred, for example, by the method of differences: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs...occur have every circumstance in common save one, that occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is ... the cause,...

...Mill, the method of experimentation. The cannon of that method Mill stated as follows: "lf an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon" (Mill, [1843] 1967:256 italics removed)....

...his "Second Canon," Mill formulates the Method of Difference: 148 STUART F. SPICKER If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon . . . ([33], p. 256). And a few pages later he concludes: "It thus appears to be by the Method of Difference...

...regulating principle of" and "the axioms implied in" his famous Method of Difference: If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs,...indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon. (1973, p. 391) The method's canon then is a rule or criterion for the cause-effect relationship. Like...