concomitance

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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.

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.

Nature made health, and at the same time it was necessary by a kind of concomitance that the source of diseases should be opened up.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

Yet we must know that there is something of Christ in this sacrament in a twofold manner: first, as it were, by the power of the sacrament; secondly, from natural concomitance.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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