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Chapter 10. Wrapping Up Phase One ........................................................................... 155
1. Highlights of Findings. .......................................................................................... 155
2. The Modes of Causation. ....................................................................................... 157
3. Gaps and Loose Ends. ........................................................................................... 159
Appendix 1: J. S. Mill’s Methods: A Critical Analysis. .................................... 161
Preamble ................................................................................................................ 161
1. The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference ........................................... 162
2. The Method of Agreement ............................................................................ 165
3. The Method of Difference ............................................................................. 167
4. The Method of Residues ................................................................................ 170
5. The Method of Concomitant Variations ........................................................ 172
Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................. 174

Phase Two: Microanalysis.

Chapter 11. Piecemeal Microanalysis. ........................................................................... 179
1. Binary Coding and Unraveling. ............................................................................. 179
2. The Generic Determinations. ................................................................................. 181
3. Contraction and Expansion. ................................................................................... 183
4. Intersection, Nullification and Merger. ................................................................. 187
5. Negation. ............................................................................................................... 190
Chapter 12. Systematic Microanalysis. ......................................................................... 193
1. Grand Matrices. ..................................................................................................... 193
2. Moduses in a Two-Item Framework. .................................................................... 195
3. Catalogue of Moduses, for Three Items. ............................................................... 199
4. Enumeration of Moduses, for Three Items. ........................................................... 204
5. Comparing Frameworks. ....................................................................................... 206
Chapter 13. Some More Microanalyses. ........................................................................ 209
1. Relative Weaks. ..................................................................................................... 209
2. Items of Negative Polarity in Two-Item Framework. ........................................... 212
3. Items of Negative Polarity in Three-Item Framework. ......................................... 216
4. Categoricals and Conditionals. .............................................................................. 221
Chapter 14. Main Three-Item Syllogisms. .................................................................... 231
1. Applying Microanalysis to Syllogism. .................................................................. 231
2. The Moduses of Premises. ..................................................................................... 233
3. The Moduses of Conclusions. ............................................................................... 236
4. Dealing with Vaguer Propositions. ........................................................................ 243
Chapter 15. Some More Three-Item Syllogisms. .......................................................... 246
1. Special Cases of Three-item Syllogism. ................................................................ 246
2. Dealing with Negatives. ........................................................................................ 256
Chapter 16. Outstanding Issues. .................................................................................... 261
1. Four-Item Syllogism. ............................................................................................. 261
2. On Laws of Causation. .......................................................................................... 262
3. Interdependence. .................................................................................................... 267
4. Other Features of Causation Worthy of Study. ..................................................... 270
5. To Be Continued. ................................................................................................... 271