A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, Volume 2 (Google eBook)

John Stuart Mill

John W. Parker, 1843 - Knowledge, Theory of

Contents

• Can all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law?: 2
• Of the Requisites of a Philosophical Lan: 23
• Chapter XV Of Progressive Effects and of the Continued: 30
• cedents are resolvable 52 8 Two kinds of empirical laws 54 Chapter XVII Of Chance and its Elimination 1 The proof of empirical laws depends on t...: 56
• Of the Calculation of Chances 1 The foundation of the doctrine of chances as taught by Laplace defective: 70
• tingent upon collocations 86 2 On what grounds they can be extended to cases beyond the bounds of actual experience 88 3 Those cases must be adj...: 117
• Of Uniformities of Coexistence: 120
• dependent upon Causation PAGE 1 The uniformities of coexistence which result from laws of sequence 120 2 The properties of Kinds are uniformit...: 121
• Some are derivative others ultimate: 124
• No universal axiom of coexistence: 126
• The evidence of uniformities of coexistence how measured: 128
• When derivative their evidence is that of empirical laws J 29: 131
• The evidence stronger in proportion as the law is more general: 132
• Every distinct Kind must be examined: 134
• Of Approximate Generalizations and Probable Evidence 1 The inferences called probable rest upon approximate generalizations: 137
• Approximate generalizations less useful in science than in life: 139
• In what manner proved: 142
• With what precautions employed: 145
• The two modes of combining probabilities: 146
• How approximate generalizations may be converted into accurate generalizations equivalent to them: 150
• Of the Remaining Laws of Nature 1 Propositions which assert mere existence 154 2 Resemblance considered as a subject of science 156 3 The axiom...: 159
• and those of order in place and rest upon induction by simple enumeration: 164
• The propositions of arithmetic affirm the modes of forma tion of some given number: 166
• Those of algebra affirm the equivalence of different modes of formation of numbers generally: 168
• The propositions of geometry are laws of outward nature: 172
• Why geometry is almost entirely deductive: 176
• Function of mathematical truths in the other sciences and limits of that function: 178
• 3: 193
• Conceptions 1 The comparison which is a preliminary to induction implies general conceptions 212 2 but these need not be preexistent: 214
• Human Nature 1 There may be sciences which are not exact sciences 490 2 To what scientific type the Science of Human Nature cor: 225
• Induction 1 The fundamental property of names as an instrument of thought: 230
• rated into the meaning of words 262 2 and sometimes become the whole meaning 265 3 Tendency of words to become generalized 267 4 and to be...: 285
• Induction: 299
• Of Classification by Series: 321
• Classification of Fallacies 1 On what criteria a classification of fallacies should be grounded: 339
• Fallacies of Simple Inspection or a priori: 348
• 1 Character of this class of fallacies 348 2 Natural prejudice of mistaking subjective laws for objective exemplified in popular superstitions 360 3 Nat...: 355
• tion 42: 432
• Of the Laws of Mind: 497
• Of Ethology or the Science of the Formation: 511
• General considerations on the Social Science 1 Are Social Phenomena a subject of Science? 533 2 Of what nature the Social Science must be 636: 537
• Of the Geometrical or Abstract Method: 549
• The Direct and Inverse Deductive Methods 561 2 Difficulties of the Direct Deductive Method in the Social Science: 565
• Of the Inverse Deductive or Historical: 585
• Future prospects of Sociological inquiry 610 Chapter XI Of the Logic of Practice or Art including: 613

Popular passages

Page 110 - I am convinced that any one accustomed to abstraction and analysis, who will fairly exert his faculties for the purpose, will' when his imagination has once learnt to entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one for instance of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides the universe, events may succeed one another at random, without any fixed law; nor can anything in our experience, or in our mental nature, constitute a sufficient, or indeed any, reason...‎

Page 161 - ... that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.‎

Page 359 - 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 anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.‎

Page 248 - E; — while at the same time no quality can be found which belongs in common to any three objects in the series. Is it not conceivable that the affinity between A and B may produce a transference of the name of the first to the second; and that, in consequence of the other affinities which connect the remaining objects together, the same name may pass in succession from B to C; from C to D; and from D to E...‎

Page 571 - These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit of wealth, but accompany it always as a drag, or impediment, and are therefore inseparably mixed up in the cohsideration of it. Political Economy considers mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth...‎

Page 302 - The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed.‎

Page 522 - The laws of the formation of character are, in short, derivative laws, resulting from the general laws of mind, and are to be obtained by deducing them from those general laws by supposing any given set of circumstances and then considering what, according to the laws of mind, will be the influence of those circumstances on the formation of character.‎

Page 587 - ... the proximate cause of every state of society is the state of society immediately preceding it. The fundamental problem, therefore, of the social science, is to find the laws according to which any state of society produces the state which succeeds it and takes its place.‎

Page 308 - Type is an example of any class, for instance, a species of a genus, which is considered as eminently possessing the characters of the class. All the species which have a greater affinity with this Type-species than with any others, form the genus, and are ranged about it, deviating from it in various directions and diiferent degrees.‎

Page 496 - In other words, the science of Human Nature may be said to exist in proportion as the approximate truths, which compose a practical knowledge of mankind, can be exhibited as corollaries from the universal laws of human nature on which they rest...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, Volume 2; 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: John W. Parker, 1843
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Oct 24, 2006