e Sciences 43
V. & VI. Demonstration and Necessary Truths 46
BOOK III.
INDUCTION.
I. Preliminary Observations on Induction in general 53
II. Inductions improperly so called 54
III. The ground of Induction 57
IV. Laws of Nature 58
V. The Law of Universal Causation 60
VI. The Composition of Causes 66
VII. Observation and Experiment 67
VIII. & Note to IX. The Four Methods of Experimental
Enquiry 69
X. Plurality of Causes, and intermixture of Effects 73
XI. The Deductive Method 76
XII. & XIII. The Explanation and Examples of the Explanation
of Laws of Nature 77
XIV. The Limits to the Explanation of Laws of Nature;
and Hypotheses 79
XV. Progressive Effects, and continued Action of
Causes 81
XVI. Empirical Laws 83
XVII. Chance, and its Elimination 85
XVIII. The Calculation of Chances 87
XIX. The Extension of Derivative Laws to Adjacent Cases 89
XX. Analogy 91
XXI. The Evidence of the Law of Universal Causation 92
XXII. Uniformities of Coexistence not dependent on Causation 94
XXIII. Approximate Generalisations, and Probable Evidence 96
XXIV. The remaining Laws of Nature 99
XXV. The grounds of Disbelief 103
BOOK IV.
OPERATIONS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION.
I. Observation and Description 107
II. Abstraction, or the Formation of Conceptions 108
III. Naming as Subsidiary to Induction 111
IV. The Requisites of a Philosophical Language, and the
Principles of Definition 112
V. The Natural History of the Variatio
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