A System of Logic

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is an 1843 book by English philosopher John Stuart Mill. In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's methods. This work is important insofar as it outlines the empirical principles Mill would use to justify his moral and political philosophies. An article in "Philosophy of Recent Times" has described this book as an "attempt to expound a psychological system of logic within empiricist principles.”

This work was important to the history of science, being a strong influence on scientists such as Dirac.

References

• Mill, John Stuart, A System of Logic, University Press of the Pacific, Honolulu, 2002, ISBN 1-4102-0252-6
• Philosophy of Recent Times, ed. J. B. Hartmann (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), I, 14.

External links

Online editions

• 1843. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II
• 1846. Google Books: All
• 1851. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II missing? Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II missing?
• 1858. Google Books: All
• 1862. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II
• 1868. Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II. Also Vol. I, Vol. II. Also Vol. I
• 1872. Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II. Also partial HTML version.
• 1882. Internet Archive: All
• 1974 (comparative edition). Robson, J. M., ed. (1963–1991), Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Toronto: University of Toronto Press . Appeared in Vol. 7, and Vol. 8 of the series.