...; since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause that we...not be true of day and night. We do not believe that j night will be followed by day under all imaginable circumstances, but only | that it will be so provided...

...determinations there does not lie exclusively, according to Mill, a probable prediction of the future. "It is necessary to our using the word cause, that...constitution of things endures, it always will be so." Likewise, Mill, the man of research, not the empiristic logician, asserts that there belongs to the...

...synonymous with ' the antecedent which it invariably has followed in our past experience.' . . . But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that...constitution of things endures, it always will be so. . . . This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity....

...interposition of other circumstances in the interval. Mill, discussing this instance of night and day, says: « It is necessary to our using the word cause, that...should believe not only that the antecedent always lia» been followed by the consequent, but that as long as the present constitution of things endures,...

...example, that the army was surrounded because the sentinel was absent from his post. It is necessary in our using the word cause that we should believe not...constitution of things endures, it always will be so. We do not believe, for instance, that night is the cause of day and day the cause of night; for we...

...cause of day, and day the cause of night. To obviate the objection, Mill adds that causality implies not only that the antecedent always has been followed...constitution of things endures, it always will be so. All that can be meant by the term necessity is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which...

...about invariability as in those about everything else. The most definite opinion he gives is this : ' That we should believe not only that the antecedent...always has been followed by the consequent, but that so long as the present constitution of things endures, it always will be so.' It seems from this passage...

...interposition of other circumstances in the interval. Mill, discussing this instance of night and day, says: It is necessary to our using the word cause, that...constitution of things endures, it always will be so. 1 In this sense, we shall have to give up the hope of finding causal laws such as Mill contemplated;...

...other circumstances in the interval. Mill, discussing this instance of night and day, says : — " It is necessary to our using the word cause, that...should believe not only that the antecedent always has o been followed by the consequent, but that as long as the present constitution of things endures,...

...of other circumstances in the interval. Mill, discussing this instance of night and day, says:— " It is necessary to our using the word cause, that...been followed by the consequent, but that as long as thepresent constitution of things endures, it always wtitf be so."* In this sense, we shall have to...