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able according action affirmed already animal appear applied argument ascertained assertion attributes believe body called causation cause character circumstances combination common complete conceive conception conclusion connected connotation consequent considered consists deductive definition depend direct distinction doctrine effect equal evidence example exist experience explain expression fact feelings follow force generalisation give given ground human idea important individual induction inference instance kind knowledge known language laws less Logic manner mark matter meaning mental merely Method mind mode motion nature necessary never objects observation operation original particular persons phenomena phenomenon philosophy position possess possible practical predicate premises present principle probably produced properties proposition proved question reason relation require resemblance respecting result scientific sensations sense species substances succession sufficient supposed term theory things thought tion true truth uniformity universal whole
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Page 493 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
Page 213 - The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth, that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded it...
Page 573 - Human beings in society have no properties but those which are derived from, and may be resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual man.
Page 206 - Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a complete induction ; while in others, myriads of concurring instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go such a very little way towards establishing a universal proposition ? Whoever can answer this question, knows more of the philosophy of logic than the wisest of the ancients, and has solved the problem of induction.
Page 283 - The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism and its rules are for ratiocination) to which if inductive arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive, and not otherwise.
Page 114 - Nevertheless, neither the dictum de omni et nutto — " that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class;
Page 256 - ... the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect or the cause or an indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon.
Page 86 - The simplest and most correct notion of a Definition is, a proposition declaratory of the meaning of a word...
Page 612 - The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them.
Page 298 - The vulgar notion, that the safe methods on political subjects are those of Baconian induction - that the true guide is not general reasoning, but specific experience - will one day be quoted as among the most unequivocal marks of a low state of the speculative faculties in any age in which it is accredited.
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| Title | A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the 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 People's edition |
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0598982302, 9780598982308 |
| Length | 622 pages |
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