His third canon, called the joint method of agreement and difference is a combination of the first two already discussed. It puts together both the positives and negatives of a situation. It states that when analyzing two different occurrences, the instance that is alike in the first occurrence is the instance that makes the second occurrence different...
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For example, in the first occurrence there are two people who have black hair but nothing else in common. In the second occurrence, there is a set of twins who share all common traits except hair color, one is blonde and one is a red head. This is the joint method because the difference in the second occurrence was the similarity in the first occurrence and that is the very instance that brought them together (O'Shaughnessy)...
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