Question

VI. Mill's Methods. For each of the following passages, identify which of Mill's Methods is being used. Choices are: Method of Agreement, Method of Disagreement, Joint Method of Agreement and Disagreement, Method of Residue, and Method of Concomitant Variation. (2 points each) 1. 150 people ate at Grandma Joe's Restaurant on Wednesday, 23 of them ate the rice and lentil soup, but had different drinks, appetizers, and deserts. Those 23 customers got sick. No one else who ate at Grandma Joe's Restaurant on Wednesday got sick. 2. John ate salad and fish. Tom ate salad and spaghetti. Joachim ate salad and pizza. All three got sick. So, eating salad caused them to get sick. 3. Ralph and Jose are in the same year in college and are enrolled in all the same classes. Jose studied for the exam and aced it. Ralph did not study for the exam, and got a B. So, Jose aced the exam because he studied. 4. Charlese baked several cakes, and she found that the more sugar she puts into the batter, the more the children like the cakes. So, sugar in the batter causes children to like the cake. 5. Jamal had two pots. He put seeds in one and not in the other. Plants grew in the pot that had seeds in it, but not in the other pot. So, the seeds caused the plants to grow.

Answer 1

Method of residue. rice & lentil soup is other phenomenon varies Because eating common but the and they get sick common rearon here bince Salad is the eating & it is reason of getting so it is direct method of agreement. the Sick, 3 which Study is the phenomenon in Ralph & Jose disagree but it is the of pare 8 fail, so it Joint method of agreement a & disagreement. rearon to 14 Putting suger the batter makes children to like the cake. So this is method of concomitant variation is method of disagreement. This