concomitance

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The "not varying together," however, must not be confused with "varying inversely," which when regular indicates a true concomitance.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

This better understanding, however, enables us, with Mr. Bain, to admit, as one of the tests for distinguishing causation from mere concomitance, the expenditure or transfer of energy.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

In the first place, our knowledge of the concomitance of brain-process and consciousness, or at least of the constant uniformity of this concomitance, is only comparatively recent.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

It is very important to remark that in all this no new meaning has been given to the word "concomitance."

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

Thus, in hunting for some cause and effect in the activity of the will, we bring to light, in the end, only a certain concomitance and sequence.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.