The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Part I

Vol. 7 of the 33 vol. Collected Works contains Part 1 of Mill’s System of Logic. It contains chapters on reasoning, induction, the laws of nature, causation, and disbelief.
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (Books I-III), ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by R.F. McRae (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974).
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- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Editor: John M. Robson
- Introduction: R.F. McRae
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- I.: THE WRITING OF THE LOGIC
- MILL’S EARLY STUDIES OF LOGIC, 1818-30
- FIRST VERSIONS OF THE Logic, 1830-40
- FINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSION, 1841-43
- REVISIONS, PROOF TO 8TH EDITION, 1843-72
- SUMMARY OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE LOGIC
- MILL’S SOURCES
- II.: THE PRESENT TEXT
- III.: APPENDICES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACES
- Preface [To all editions]
- A SYSTEM OF LOGIC RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE
- Introduction
- BOOK I: OF NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS
- CHAPTER I: Of the Necessity of Commencing with an Analysis of Language
- CHAPTER II: Of Names
- CHAPTER III: Of the Things Denoted by Names
- I.: Feelings, or States of Consciousness
- II.: Substances
- III.: Attributes: and, first, Qualities
- IV.: Relations
- V.: Quantity
- VI.: Attributes Concluded
- VII.: General aResultsa
- CHAPTER IV: Of Propositions
- CHAPTER V: Of the Import of Propositions
- CHAPTER VI: Of Propositions Merely Verbal
- CHAPTER VII: Of the Nature of Classification, and the Five Predicables
- CHAPTER VIII: Of Definition
- BOOK II: OF REASONING
- CHAPTER I: Of Inference, or Reasoning, in General
- CHAPTER II: Of Ratiocination, or Syllogism
- CHAPTER III: Of the Functions and Logical Value of the Syllogism
- CHAPTER IV: Of Trains of Reasoning, and Deductive Sciences
- CHAPTER V: Of Demonstration, and Necessary Truths
- CHAPTER VI: The Same Subject Continued
- aCHAPTER VII: Examination of Some Opinions Opposed to the Preceding Doctrines
- BOOK III: OF INDUCTION
- CHAPTER I: Preliminary Observations on Induction in General
- CHAPTER II: Of Inductions Improperly So Called
- CHAPTER III: Of the Ground of Induction
- CHAPTER IV: Of Laws of Nature
- CHAPTER V: Of the Law of Universal Causation
- CHAPTER VI: aOna the Composition of Causes
- CHAPTER VII: Of Observation and Experiment
- CHAPTER VIII: Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry
- First Canon
- Second Canon
- Third Canon
- Fourth Canon
- Fifth Canon
- CHAPTER IX: Miscellaneous Examples of the Four Methods
- CHAPTER X: Of Plurality of Causes; and of the Intermixture of Effects
- CHAPTER XI: Of the Deductive Method
- CHAPTER XII: Of the Explanation of Laws of Nature
- CHAPTER XIII: Miscellaneous Examples of the Explanation of Laws of Nature
- CHAPTER XIV[*]: aOfa the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of Nature; and of Hypotheses
- CHAPTER XV: Of Progressive Effects; and of the Continued Action of Causes
- CHAPTER XVI: Of Empirical Laws
- CHAPTER XVII: Of Chance and Its Elimination
- CHAPTER XVIII: Of the Calculation of Chances
- CHAPTER XIX: aOfa the Extension of Derivative Laws to Adjacent Cases
- CHAPTER XX: Of Analogy
- CHAPTER XXI: Of the Evidence of the Law of Universal Causation
- CHAPTER XXII: Of Uniformities of Coexistence not Dependent on Causation
- CHAPTER XXIII: Of Approximate Generalizations, and Probable Evidence
- CHAPTER XXIV: Of the Remaining Laws of Nature
- CHAPTER XXV: Of the Grounds of Disbelief