A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive - Softcover

Mill, John Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3337702899 ISBN 13: 9783337702892

Synopsis

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive : being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation Mill's Logic, first published in 1843, firmly established Mill as the leader of the empirical school of logic. A System of Logic is the first major installment of his comprehensive restatement of an empiricist and utilitarian position. It begins the attack on ""intuitionism"" which Mill carried on throughout his life, and makes plain his belief that social planning and political action should rely primarily on scientific knowledge, not on authority, custom, revelation, or prescription. Contents include: OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS - Of the Necessity of commencing with an Analysis of Language, Of Names, Of the Things denoted by Names, Of Proposition, Of the Import of Propositions, Of Propositions merely Verbal, Of the nature of Classification and the five Predicables, Of Definition. OF REASONING - Of Inference, or Reasoning in General, Of Ratiocination, or Syllogism, Of the Functions, and logical Values of Syllogism, Of trains of Reasoning and Deductive Sciences, Of Demonstration and Necessary truths. OF INDUCTION - Observations on Induction in General, On the Ground of Induction, Of the Laws of Nature, Of The Law of Universal Causation, Of The Composition of Causes, Of Observation and Experiment, Four Methods of Experimental Enquiry, Miscellaneous Examples, Plurality of Causes, Of the Deductive Method, Explanation of Laws of Nature. Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of; Logic; Science -- Methodology

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3337702899
• ISBN 13: 9783337702892
• Binding: Paperback