Project Gutenberg 2011-02-27 Public domain in the USA. 237 Mill, John Stuart 1806 1873 Mill, J. S. (John Stuart) A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_System_of_Logic Produced by David Clarke, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II" by John Stuart Mill is a philosophical work written in the mid-19th century. This volume continues Mill's exploration of logic, particularly focusing on the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation. The book examines various types of reasoning, especially induction, and investigates the nature and limits of scientific hypotheses. The opening of this volume establishes a foundation for discussing induction, emphasizing the interplay between inductive and deductive methods in scientific inquiry. Mill begins by outlining the distinction between ultimate and derivative laws in nature, arguing that while derivative laws can often be resolved into more general ones, ultimate laws cannot. He prompts readers to consider the possibility of arriving at a single universal law that encompasses all natural phenomena, based on the continuous efforts of scientific exploration and experimentation—an idea that reflects a key concern of the Enlightenment era. Mill also highlights the significance of hypotheses in science, detailing how they can be essential for the deductive process but need to be tested against empirical evidence to be validated. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 34.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Science -- Methodology Knowledge, Theory of Logic BC Text Philosophy Category: Research Methods/Statistics/Information Sys Category: Philosophy & Ethics 1360297 2025-07-14T10:53:58.134982 text/html 1353839 2021-01-07T13:43:21 text/html 565189 2025-07-14T10:54:14.785951 application/epub+zip 578836 2025-07-14T10:54:03.307951 application/epub+zip 536635 2025-07-14T10:54:01.212962 application/epub+zip 1092212 2025-07-14T10:54:23.215850 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1006494 2025-07-14T10:54:12.994883 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 848081 2022-09-16T08:53:00.576868 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1215170 2025-07-14T10:53:56.673046 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1214993 2021-01-07T13:43:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1214298 2021-01-07T13:43:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1215133 2021-01-07T13:43:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23738 2025-07-14T10:54:23.369837 application/rdf+xml 24441 2025-07-14T10:54:01.828946 image/jpeg 4412 2025-07-14T10:54:01.487966 image/jpeg 412782 2021-01-07T13:43:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 412100 2021-01-07T13:43:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 437585 2021-01-07T13:43:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 411827 2021-01-07T13:43:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 534596 2025-07-14T10:53:58.226015 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia