The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. The Science of Logic - Page 76by Peter Coffey - 1912 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1848 - 544 pages
...definition of Cause implies coexistence. He says, (I. 404,) " The cause, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together ; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequence invariably... | |
| Samuel Neil - Logic - 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 taken together — the whole of the contingencies of every description — which being realised, the consequent follows."... | |
| Homeopathy - 1858 - 598 pages
...isolated effects. Mills, in his incomparable logic, says : — " The cause then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative taken together: the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 508 pages
...the phenomenon is the assemblage of all its conditions. The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together — the whole of the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Henry James - Creation - 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 taken together ; the whole of the contingencies of every description which being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Francis Bowen - Logic - 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, taken together ; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - Positivism - 1864 - 200 pages
...cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together ; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| 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, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Francis Bowen - Logic - 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, taken together ; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which, being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - English literature - 1864 - 516 pages
...1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, $ien, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably... | |
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