Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill
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Chapter XI. Of the Deductive Method.
§ 1. First stage; ascertainment of the laws of the separate causes by direct induction 507
2. Second stage; ratiocination from the simple laws of the complex cases 512
3. Third stage; verification by specific experience 514
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Chapter XII. Of the Explanation of Laws of Nature.
§ 1. Explanation defined 518
2. First mode of explanation, by resolving the law of a complex effect into the laws of the concurrent causes and the fact of their coexistence 518
3. Second mode; by the detection of an intermediate link in the sequence 519
4. Laws are always resolved into laws more general than themselves 520
5. Third mode; the subsumption of less general laws under a more general one 524
6. What the explanation of a law of nature amounts to 526
Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous Examples of the Explanation of Laws of Nature.
§ 1. The general theories of the sciences 529
2. Examples from chemical speculations 531
3. Example from Dr. Brown-Séquard's researches on the nervous system 533
4. Examples of following newly-discovered laws into their complex manifestations 534
5. Examples of empirical generalizations, afterwards confirmed and explained deductively 536
6. Example from mental science 538
7. Tendency of all the sciences to become deductive 539
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE, VOLUME II.
BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE AND THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
By John Stuart Mill
IN TWO VOLUMES
SEVENTH EDITION
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
BOOK III.
ON INDUCTION.—(Continued.)
Chapter XIV. Of the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of Nature; and of Hypotheses.
§ 1. Can all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law? 3
2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distinguishable feelings of our nature 4
3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained 7
4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses 8
5. Their indispensableness 16
6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypotheses 18
7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really inductive 25
Chapter XV. Of Progressive Effects; and of the Continued Action of Causes.
§ 1. How a progressive effect results from the simple continuance of the cause 29
2. —and from the progressiveness of the cause 33
3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law 36
Chapter XVI. Of Empirical Laws.
§ 1. Definition of an empirical law 38
2. Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations 39
3. The collocations of the permanent causes are not reducible to any law 41
[Pg vi]4. Hence empirical laws cannot be relied on beyond the limits of actual experience 41
5. Generalizations which rest only on the Method of Agreement can only be received as empirical laws 43
6. Signs from which an observed uniformity of sequence may be presumed to be resolvable 44
7. Two kinds of empirical laws 47