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Title: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)

Author: John Stuart Mill

Release Date: August 31, 2008 [Ebook #26495]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE (VOL. 1 OF 2)***

A SYSTEM OF LOGIC,

RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE,

BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE

PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE,

AND THE

METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

by

JOHN STUART MILL.

In Two Volumes.

Vol. I.

Third Edition.

London:

John Parker, West Strand.

M DCCC LI.

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
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 Results.
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 CONT