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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)

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A SYSTEM OF LOGIC,

                       RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE,

                      BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE

                         PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE,

                                 AND THE

                   METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

                                    by

                            JOHN STUART MILL.

                             In Two Volumes.

                                 Vol. I.

                              Third Edition.

                                 London:

                        John Parker, West Strand.

                                M DCCC LI.





CONTENTS


PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
INTRODUCTION.
BOOK I. OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS.
   CHAPTER I. OF THE NECESSITY OF COMMENCING WITH AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE.
   CHAPTER II. OF NAMES.
   CHAPTER III. OF THE THINGS DENOTED BY NAMES.
      I. Feelings, or States of Consciousness.
      II. Substances.
      III. Attributes: and, first, Qualities.
      IV. Relations.
      V. Quantity.
      VI. Attributes Concluded.
      VII. General Results.
   CHAPTER IV. OF PROPOSITIONS.
   CHAPTER V. OF THE IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS.
   CHAPTER VI. OF PROPOSITIONS MERELY VERBAL.
   CHAPTER VII. OF THE NATURE OF CLASSIFICATION, AND THE FIVE PREDICABLES.
   CHAPTER VIII. OF DEFINITION.
BOOK II. OF REASONING.
   CHAPTER I. OF INFERENCE, OR REASONING, IN GENERAL.
   CHAPTER II. OF RATIOCINATION, OR SYLLOGISM.
   CHAPTER III. OF THE FUNCTIONS, AND LOGICAL VALUE, OF THE SYLLOGISM.
   CHAPTER IV. OF TRAINS OF REASONING, AND DEDUCTIVE SCIENCES.
   CHAPTER V. OF DEMONSTRATION, AND NECESSARY TRUTHS.
   CHAPTER VI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
BOOK III. OF INDUCTION.
   CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON INDUCTION IN GENERAL.
   CHAPTER II. OF INDUCTIONS IMPROPERLY SO CALLED.
   CHAPTER III. OF THE GROUND OF INDUCTION.
   CHAPTER IV. OF LAWS OF NATURE.
   CHAPTER V. OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION.
   CHAPTER VI. OF THE COMPOSITION OF CAUSES.
   CHAPTER VII. OF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT.
   CHAPTER VIII. OF THE FOUR METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY.
   CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF THE FOUR METHODS.
   CHAPTER X. OF PLURALITY OF CAUSES; AND OF THE INTERMIXTURE OF EFFECTS.
   CHAPTER XI. OF THE DEDUCTIVE METHOD.
   CHAPTER XII. OF THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF NATURE.
   CHAPTER XIII. MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF
   NATURE.
Footnotes






PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.


This book makes no pretence of giving to the world a new theory of the
intellectual operations. Its claim to attention, if it possess any, is
grounded on the fact that it is an attempt not to supersede, but to embody
and systematize, the best ideas which have been either promulgated on its
subject by speculative writers, or conformed to by accurate thinkers in
their scientific inquiries.