A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and Methods of Scientific Investigation

J.W. Parker, 1843

Necessity of an enumeration of Nameable Things The Categories of Aristotle	1

Ambiguity of the most general names	2

Feelings or states of consciousness	3

Feelings must be distinguished from their physical antece dents Perceptions what	4

Volitions and Actions what PAGE	5

BOOK I	17

Of Names	27

Names are names of things not of our ideas	34

Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry PAGE 1 Method of Agreement	450

Method of Difference	454

Mutual relation of these two methods	456

Joint Method of Agreement and Difference	462

Method of Residues	464

Method of Concomitant Variations	466

Limitations of this last method	473

Miscellaneous Examples of the Four Methods 1 Liebigs theory of metallic poisons	480

Substance and Attribute	72

Mind	74

Qualities	83

Relations 11 Resemblance 12 Quantity 81 83	87

All attributes of bodies are grounded upon states of con sciousness 14 So also all attributes of mind 15 Recapitulation 5885	97

Of Propositions 1 Nature and office of the copula 2 Affirmative and Negative propositions 3 Simple and Complex 4 Universal Particular and Singular	103

Doctrine that a proposition is the expression of a relation between two ideas 2 Doctrine that it is the expression of a relation between the meanings of ...	145

Of the Nature of Classification and	159

Of Definition	182

7	202

Of Ratiocination or Syllogism	226

Doctrine that it consists in referring something to or ex cluding something from a class	239

Of the Functions and Logical Value of	244

General propositions are a record of such inferences and	259

Of Trains of Reasoning and Deductive	275

5	287

130	308

Definition of demonstrative evidence and of logical necessity	342

Are there any inductions fitted to be a test of all others?	388

Two modes of the conjunct action of causes the mechanical	426

how far a perfect example	484

Theory of induced electricity	488

Dr Wells theory of dew	490

Examples of the Method of Residues	505

Of Plurality of Causes and of the Intermix ture of Effects 1 One effect may have several causes	506

which is the source of a characteristic imperfection of the Method of Agreement	507

Plurality of Causes how ascertained	513

Concurrence of causes which do not compound their effects	514

What it really	520

Difficulties of the investigation when causes compound their effects	521

or a resemblance 135	524

The method of simple observation inapplicable	526

The purely experimental method inapplicable	528

Of the Deductive Method 1 First stage ascertainment of the laws of the separate causes by direct induction	534

Second stage ratiocination from the simple laws to the complex cases	541

Third stage verification by specific experience	543

What the explanation of a law of nature amounts	548

Miscellaneous Examples of the Explanation	562

scientific inquiry	578

Title	A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and Methods of Scientific Investigation Volume 1 of A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, John Stuart Mill
Author	John Stuart Mill
Publisher	J.W. Parker, 1843
Original from	National Library of the Netherlands
Digitized	16 Jan 2012

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