...Forces' would be subsumed under that of the ' Conservation of Energy.' METHOD OF AGREEMENT. CANON 6. 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,...

...approaches the least exact of the experimental methods whose canon is thus laid down by Mr Mill : " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." But any conclusion arrived at from an inspection of this table will be a guess ; for Bacon curiously...

...question haveonly,in common, the presence of one other circumstance, that circumstance, in the presence of which alone all the instances agree, is the cause or effect of the given phenomenon. Its principle is — that of comparing different cases in which the given phenomenon occurs, in order...

...phenomenon under invest ipatkm have only tmr. circumstance in common, the circumstance in which <tl<wt all the instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon/' Now, in applying this to any practical caw, how an we he possibly certain that any two instances have...

...approaches the least exact of the experimental methods whose canon is thus laid down by Mr Mill: " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." But any conclusion arrived at from an inspection of this table will be a guess; for Bacon curiously...

...Method of Agreement. We cannot do better than formulate it in his own words : METHOD OF AGREEMENT. " If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon." Our readers will observe that in this law Mr. Mill goes beyond the requirements we have given above,...

...Agreement ; and we may adopt as its regulating principle the following canon : — FIRST CANON. Tf two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Quitting for the present the Method of Agreement, to which we shall almost immediately return, we proceed...

...following words, 1 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,...

...antecedent of crystallization, Here we have an example of the Method of Agreement. Its canon is :— " ' I. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation...instances agree, is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.'"—MILL'S Logic, i. 422. - ' A bird in the air breathes ; plunged into carbonic acid gas,...

...all. Let ua take, e. </., what is called the first canon of the " Method of Agreement," which is this: "If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only (me circumstance in common, the circumstance in tehieh nlime all the instances agree, is the cause...