METHOD OF RESIDUES


Meaning of METHOD OF RESIDUES in English

: a method of scientific induction devised by J. S. Mill according to which if one subtracts from a phenomenon the part known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents the remaining part of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents

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