| 1848 - 544 pages
...consequent. On the contrary, Mr. Mill's own definition of Cause implies coexistence. He says, (I. 404,) " The cause, philosophically speaking, is the sum total...the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequence invariably follows." The cause, then, does not exist until all the conditions... | |
| Samuel Neil - 1853 - 314 pages
...are invariably consequent, must be the cause (or connected with the cause) of that effect." A cause " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...description — which being realised, the consequent follows." • See, for a debate on this topic, " British Controversialist," vol. i. a I. METHOD 01?... | |
| Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pages
...and that the real cause of the phenomenon is the assemblage of all its conditions. The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably follows. The negative conditions, however, of any phenomenon, a... | |
| 1858 - 598 pages
...isolated cause producing isolated effects. Mills, in his incomparable logic, says : — " The cause then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. It is seldom, if ever, between a consequent and one single... | |
| Henry James - 1863 - 558 pages
...yourself a temporary reputation of success ? " The cause then, philosophically speaking," says Mr. Mill, " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...the contingencies of every description which being realized, the consequent invariably follows."1 But what a caricature of our conception of cause this... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...d'en supposer un autre que 1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, $ien, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. 3. If there he any meaning which confessedly belongs to... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 200 pages
...la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If there be any meauing which confessedly belongs... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 pages
...right to give the name of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 178 pages
...la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, Ihen, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...the whole of the contingencies of every description, wlnch being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If Ihere be any meaning which confessedly... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...right to give the name ' of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the... | |
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