A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II
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CHAPTER VII. _Of Classification, as subsidiary to
Induction._
§ 1. Classification as here treated of, wherein different from
the classification implied in naming 266
2. Theory of natural groups 267
3. Are natural groups given by type, or by definition? 271
4. Kinds are natural groups 274
5. How the names of Kinds should be constructed 280
CHAPTER VIII. _Of Classification by Series._
§ 1. Natural groups should be arranged in a natural series 284
2. The arrangement should follow the degrees of the main
phenomenon 285
3. --which implies the assumption of a type-species 287
4. How the divisions of the series should be determined 288
5. Zoology affords the completest type of scientific
classification 289
BOOK V.
ON FALLACIES.
CHAPTER I. _Of Fallacies in General._
§ 1. Theory of fallacies a necessary part of logic 295
2. Casual mistakes are not fallacies 297
3. The moral sources of erroneous opinion, how related to
the intellectual 297
CHAPTER II. _Classification of Fallacies._
§ 1. On what criteria a classification of fallacies should be
grounded 301
2. The five classes of fallacies 302
3. The reference of a fallacy to one or another class is
sometimes arbitrary 305
CHAPTER III. _Fallacies of Simple Inspection, or à priori
Fallacies._
§ 1. Character of this class of Fallacies 309
2. Natural prejudice of mistaking subjective laws for
objective, exemplified in popular superstitions 310
3. Natural prejudices, that things which we think of together
must exist together, and that what is inconceivable
must be false 314
4. Natural prejudice, of ascribing objective existence to
abstractions 321
5. Fallacy of the Sufficient Reason 322
6. Natural prejudice, that the differences in nature correspond
to the distinctions in language 325
7. Prejudice, that a phenomenon cannot have more than one
cause 329
8. Prejudice, that the conditions of a phenomenon must
resemble the phenomenon 332
CHAPTER IV. _Fallacies of Observation._
§ 1. Non-observation, and Mal-observation 341