A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive. In two volumes

An early edition 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'. Complete in two volumes. Bookseller's labels of 'Veuve J. Boyveau', France, to front pastedowns. John Stuart Mill FRSE (20 May 1806 8 May 1873) 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" Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham. 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. Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy. In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's methods. In original publisher's cloth bindings, paper spine labels. Externally worn, joints starting, one hinge has failed and the others are weak. In need of a sympathetic rebinding. Internally, generally firmly bound, title page of volume I detached but present, strained in one or two places. Bright and clean, just the odd spot, slight dusting Fair.…