A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive In Two Volumes

The complete set of John Stuart Mill's influential philosophical work. Eighth Edition. 'Being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation'. John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was also an influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method. In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's methods. Featuring half titles to both volumes. Complete in two volumes. In original publisher's cloth bindings with paper spine labels. Externally, both volumes are lightly rubbed with loss to the spine labels. One backstrip is lifting. All joints are starting, three hinges have failed and the other is weak. Internally, volume two is generally firmly bound, with the text block being split to volume one. Bright and generally clean, although with light spotting to the first and last pages. Fair. …