 | 1850 - 676 sider
...examination of it. Our author's idea of a cause then, is thus expressed ; — "We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent" Upon this formal definition we take issue... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 sider
...examination of it. Our author's idea of a cause then, is thus expressed ; — "We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent." Upon this formal definition we take issue... | |
 | 1843 - 1380 sider
...to cause, must be not only invariable but unconditional. We may define, therefore," saysour author, "the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent." — Vol. I. p. 411. A dilemma may be raised... | |
 | 1843 - 744 sider
...the circumstances which, in the particular instance, preceded it."—Vol. ip 436. Mr. Mill defines the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. He does not seek to penetrate more deeply... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1851 - 530 sider
...hut to a limited extent, the coveted desideratum of seeing round a corner. We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon, to be the antecedent, or...antecedents, on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. Or if we adopt the convenient modification of the meaning of the word cause, which confines... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1853 - 1146 sider
...legitimately concerned, and applies himself to the consideration of the latter alone, which he defines to be " the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent." (Mill, op. cit.) But when this assemblage of antecedents is analyzed, it is uniformly... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1855 - 530 sider
...Stewart has made no reference in his Dissertation to this work of Brown. Mr. Mill afterwards defines " the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, on which it (ie the phenomenon) is invariably and unconditionally consequent." By unconditional, he means " subject... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 sider
...it always will be so. Night is not a cause, nor even a condition of day. We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon to be the antecedent or the concurrence of antecedents, upon which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. Invariable sequence, therefore, is not... | |
 | 1864 - 848 sider
...that, namely, which, whilst fully accepting the logical definition of the cause of any phenomenon, as " the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent " (Mill), draws a distinction between the dynamical and the material conditions ; the former... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 sider
...that, namely, which, whilst fully accepting the logical definition of the cause of any phenomenon, as " the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent " (Mill), draws a distinction between the dynamical and the material conditions ; the former... | |
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We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon, to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. 
