A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive : being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. Vol. 2 / by John Stuart Mill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Science--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Logic.

Science--methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1875.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"This second volume of a two volume series covers several diverse topics related to the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation. Topics include: the limits to the explanation of laws of nature, and of hypotheses; progressive effects, and of the continued action of causes; empirical laws; chance and its elimination; the calculation of chance; the extension of derivative laws to adjacent cases; analogy; the evidence of the law of universal causation; uniformities of coexistence not dependent on causation; approximate generalizations and probable evidence; the remaining laws of nature; the grounds of disbelief; observation and description; abstraction, or the formation of conceptions; naming, as subsidiary to induction; the requisites of a philosophical language and the principles of definition; the natural history of the variations in the meaning of terms; principles of philosophical language further considered; classification, as subsidiary to induction; classification by series; fallacies in general; classification of fallacies; fallacies of simple inspection, or ̀priori fallacies; fallacies of observation; fallacies of generalization; fallacies of ratiocination; fallacies of confusion; liberty and necessity; that there is, or may be, a science of human nature; the laws of mind; ethology, or the science of the formation of character; general considerations on the social science; the chemical, or experimental, method in the social science; the geometrical or abstract method; the physical, or concrete deductive method; the inverse deductive, or historical method; additional elucidations of the science of history; and the logic of practice, or art, including morality and policy." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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