...increases with the number and variety of the instances ". Prof. Fowler's amended canon runs thus : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one other circumstance in common, that circumstance may be regarded •with more or less of probability...

...the following words,1 which many an anxious candidate for academic honors has committed to memory: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,...

...following words,* which many an anxious candidate for academic honours has committed to memory : — " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Now, when two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation agree, do they, or do they not,...

...Induction, is that which Mr Mill has aptly called the Method of agreement. It depends upon the rule that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given pherfomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, I think, be more briefly...

...Induction is that which Mr Mill has aptly called the Method of agreement. It depends upon the rule that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, 1 think, be more briefly expressed by saying...

...which a given phenomenon /, ) H'-roccurs, f The canon as stated by Mill (Logic, vol. i., p. 428) is : "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...in which alone all the instances agree is the cause of the phenomenon." JfThus (letting the capital letters represent antecedents, and the lowercase letters,...

...Inductioa is that which Mr Mill has aptly called the Method of agreement. It depends upon the rule that "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." The meaning of this First Canon of inductive inquiry might, 1 think, be more briefly expressed by saying...

...Method of Agreement ; and we may adopt as its regulating principal the following canon : FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the cireumstance in which alone all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon....

...which are to be found in the chapters referred to. The first is the rule for the method of agreement: "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under...agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon ; " or, more briefly, ihe sole invariable antecedent of a phenomenon is probably its cause. The next...

...ex hypothesi they can not possibly work upon any material but universal propositions. FIRST CANON. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. SECOND CANON. If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in...