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WORKS BY JOHN STUART MILL, M.P. FOR WESTMINSTER.

ANALYSIS OF MR. MILL'S SYSTEM OF LOGIC.

W. STEBBING, M.A. FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction 1 BOOK I. NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS.

ANALYSIS OF MILL'S LOGIC.

INTRODUCTION.

BOOK I NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS.

CHAPTER I. ON THE NECESSITY OF COMMENCING WITH AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE IN LOGIC.

CHAPTER II. NAMES.

CHAPTER III. THE THINGS DENOTED BY NAMES.

CHAPTER IV. PROPOSITIONS.

CHAPTER V. THE IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS.

CHAPTER VI. PROPOSITIONS MERELY VERBAL.

CHAPTER VII. THE NATURE OF CLASSIFICATION, AND THE FIVE PREDICABLES.

CHAPTER VIII. DEFINITION.

BOOK II. REASONING.

CHAPTER I. INFERENCE, OR REASONING IN GENERAL.

CHAPTER II. RATIOCINATION, OR SYLLOGISM.

CHAPTER III. THE FUNCTIONS AND LOGICAL VALUE OF THE SYLLOGISM.

CHAPTER IV. TRAINS OF REASONING, AND DEDUCTIVE SCIENCES.

CHAPTERS V. AND VI. DEMONSTRATION AND NECESSARY TRUTHS.

BOOK III. INDUCTION.

CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON INDUCTION IN GENERAL.

CHAPTER II. INDUCTIONS IMPROPERLY SO CALLED.

CHAPTER III. THE GROUND OF INDUCTION.

CHAPTER IV. LAWS OF NATURE.

CHAPTER V. THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION.

CHAPTER VI. THE COMPOSITION OF CAUSES.

CHAPTER VII. OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT.

CHAPTER VIII. and Note to CHAPTER IX. [1] THE FOUR METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY.

CHAPTER X. PLURALITY OF CAUSES, AND INTERMIXTURE OF EFFECTS.

CHAPTER XI. THE DEDUCTIVE METHOD.

CHAPTERS XII. AND XIII. THE EXPLANATION AND EXAMPLES OF THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF NATURE.

CHAPTER XIV. THE LIMITS TO THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF NATURE. HYPOTHESES.

CHAPTER XV. PROGRESSIVE EFFECTS, AND CONTINUED ACTION OF CAUSES.

CHAPTER XVI. EMPIRICAL LAWS.

CHAPTER XVII. CHANCE, AND ITS ELIMINATION.

CHAPTER XVIII. THE CALCULATION OF CHANCES.

CHAPTER XIX. THE EXTENSION OF DERIVATIVE LAWS TO ADJACENT CASES.

CHAPTER XX. ANALOGY.

CHAPTER XXI. THE EVIDENCE OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION.

CHAPTER XXII. UNIFORMITIES OF COEXISTENCE NOT DEPENDENT ON CAUSATION.

CHAPTER XXIII. APPROXIMATE GENERALISATIONS, AND PROBABLE EVIDENCE.

CHAPTER XXIV. THE REMAINING LAWS OF NATURE.

CHAPTER XXV. THE GROUNDS OF DISBELIEF.

BOOK IV. OPERATIONS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION.

CHAPTER I. OBSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION.

CHAPTER II. ABSTRACTION, OR THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTIONS. This Chapter is a digression.

CHAPTER III. NAMING AS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION.

CHAPTER IV. THE REQUISITES OF A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DEFINITION.

CHAPTER V. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIATION IN THE MEANING OF TERMS.

CHAPTER VI. TERMINOLOGY AND NOMENCLATURE.

CHAPTER VII. CLASSIFICATION, AS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION.

CHAPTER VIII. CLASSIFICATION BY SERIES.

BOOK V. FALLACIES.

CHAPTER I. FALLACIES IN GENERAL.

CHAPTER II. CLASSIFICATION OF FALLACIES.

CHAPTER III. FALLACIES OF SIMPLE INSPECTION; OR, - PRIORI FALLACIES.

CHAPTER IV. FALLACIES OF OBSERVATION.

CHAPTER V. FALLACIES OF GENERALISATION.

CHAPTER VI. FALLACIES OF RATIOCINATION.

CHAPTER VII. FALLACIES OF CONFUSION.

BOOK VI. ON THE LOGIC OF THE MORAL SCIENCES.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

CHAPTER II. LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.

CHAPTER III. THERE IS, OR MAY BE, A SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE.

CHAPTER IV. THE LAWS OF MIND.

CHAPTER V. ETHOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER.

CHAPTER VI. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCE.

CHAPTER VII. THE CHEMICAL, OR EXPERIMENTAL, METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE.

CHAPTER VIII. THE GEOMETRICAL, OR ABSTRACT, METHOD.

CHAPTER IX. THE PHYSICAL, OR CONCRETE DEDUCTIVE, METHOD.

CHAPTER X. THE INVERSE DEDUCTIVE, OR HISTORICAL, METHOD.

CHAPTER XI. THE LOGIC OF PRACTICE, OR ART; INCLUDING MORALITY AND POLICY.

Transcriber's Note:

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ANALYSIS

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MR. MILL'S SYSTEM OF LOGIC.

 


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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